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Elias Avery Lowe (15 October 1879 – 8 August 1969), born to a Russian Jewish family as Elias Avery Loew, was an American palaeographer. His wife was the noted translator H. T. Lowe-Porter; and their great-grandson is journalist and politician Boris Johnson, Mayor of London.[1]
Lowe graduated from Cornell University in 1902 and received his doctorate in 1908 in Munich under the supervision of Ludwig Traube.
His main works are the Codices Latini Antiquiores.