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Georg Kaibel (30 October 1849 – 12 October 1901) was a German classicalphilologist born inLübeck. He was a leading authority of Greekepigraphy andepigrammatics.
Kaibel studiedclassical philology at the universities ofGöttingen andBonn. AtBonn he was a pupil ofHermann Usener andFranz Bücheler. In 1872–74 he was a member of theGerman Archaeological Institute inRome, where he became a close associate ofTheodor Mommsen andUlrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. Afterwards, he taught classes inElberfeld and at theAskanische Oberschule inBerlin.
In 1879 he became an associate professor of classical philology at theUniversity of Breslau, followed by professorships atRostock (1882),Greifswald (1883) andStrasbourg (1886). In 1897 he returned toGöttingen, where he was elected a full member of theGöttingen Academy of Sciences.
Kaibel published several editions of works from theSecond Sophistic era, as well as highly regarded editions ofSophocles'Electra andAntigone. He was editor of the journalHermes (1882 to 1901), and contributed numerous articles onGreek comedy to the first four volumes ofGeorg Wissowa'sRealencyclopädie der Classischen Altertumswissenschaft (1894–1901).
He died in Göttingen.
