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Henri Goelzer (29 September 1853, Beaumont-le-Roger – 1 August 1929, Esprels) was a French classical philologist.
In 1883 he obtained his doctorate at Paris with a dissertation-thesis on Sulpicius Severus, titled "Grammaticæ in Sulpicium Severum observationes potissimum ad vulgarem latinum sermonem pertinentes". Later on his career, he became a professor of grammar and philology at the University of Paris. He served as director of the Association Guillaume Budé, and in 1923 was elected a member of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres.
Literary works
He is remembered for his editions of Tacitus — Histoires (1921), Dialogue des orateurs. Vie d'agricola. La Germanie (1922), Annales (1923) and of Virgil — Enéide (1915), Les bucoliques (1925), Géorgiques (1926). With Eugène Benoist, he was the author of a Latin-French dictionary that was published over many editions:
Other noteworthy writings by Goelzer include: