Charles Henry Oldfather (13 June 1887 – 20 August 1954) was an American professor of Greek and Ancient History at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He was born inTabriz,Persia.

Oldfather's parents, Jeremiah and Felicia, were missionaries in Persia^[1] for 19 years. They emigrated to the United States when Charles was aged two years. His father was born in Farmsberg, Ohio in 1842 and his mother was fromCovington, Indiana.^[2][3]

Oldfather received a bachelor's degree fromHanover College, Indiana. After three years in a seminary, Oldfather went to the University of Munich for two years and then became an instructor at theSyrian Protestant College where he taught until 1914. In 1914, Oldfather married Margaret Kinsey McLelland, the niece of journalistDavid Graham Phillips.^[2][4] They had three children.

Oldfather was then appointed Professor of Classics at Hanover College where he taught for two years before moving toWabash College, Indiana in 1916 to teach Greek and Ancient History for 10 years. While he was at Wabash College, Oldfather was awarded a PhD from the University of Wisconsin. In 1926, Oldfather was appointed Professor of Ancient History at the University of Nebraska. He was appointed Chair of the History Department in 1929. In 1932, Oldfather became Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences. He remained at the University of Nebraska until he retired in 1951. He died in 1954 from a heart ailment.^[3]

• The first six volumes ofDiodorus of Sicily,Library of History, later comprising twelve volumes, with the English translation undertaken by Oldfather, London, Heinemann, 1933-1954^[3][5][6][7]
• The Greek literary texts from Greco-Roman Egypt^[8] (1923)^[7]
• De jure naturae et gentium libri octo^[9] (1934)^[7]

• William Abbott Oldfather

• Charles Henry Oldfather at the Database of Classical Scholars

• 1887 births
• 1954 deaths
• People from Tabriz
• American expatriates in Iran
• 20th-century American historians
• 20th-century American male writers
• Hanover College faculty
• Wabash College faculty
• University of Nebraska–Lincoln faculty
• American male non-fiction writers

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