11 Facts About Ada Adler

Ada Sara Adler was a Danish classical scholar and librarian.

Ada Adler's family was of high social standing and well-connected.

Ada Adler's grandfather, David Baruch Adler, was a wealthy banker and politician.

Ada Adler then went to the University of Copenhagen, where she continued to study Greek and comparative religion with Drachmann and Professor Vilhelm Thomsen.

Ada Adler taught Greek in the Danish school in Lund.

Ada Adler is buried in Mosaisk Vestre Begravelsesplads near Copenhagen.

Ada Adler is best known for her critical, standard edition of the Suda, which she published in 5 volumes.

The chapter on Ada Adler was written by Catharine Roth, a current managing editor of the Suda On Line Project; Roth contextualizes Ada Adler's seminal contribution to scholarship of the Suda as the kind of detailed cataloguing work which in the nineteenth century was granted to women while men did the more 'interesting' original research, but which was actually crucial to enabling further research.

German classical scholar Otto Weinreich, who lived roughly contemporary to Ada Adler, called her edition of the Suda "bewundernswert" in 1929, shortly after the appearance of the first volume.

Ada Adler was convinced some of the manuscripts in it had been stolen by Moldenhawer from libraries elsewhere in Europe.

Ada Adler's work is noted to have been completed in both Rome and Florence in 1913 through the spring of 1914, and later years in Paris, Venice, Oxford, and Florence.