Talk:Kurt Sethe

Date of Birth
The article currently says that Sethe was born June 30, 1869. The other language versions agree on this point. But I have here a copy of his dissertation De Aleph Prosthetico, and in the little one-page autobiographical blurb he says "Natus sum, Curtius Henricus Sethe, Berolini anno h.s. LXIX pridie Kal. Octobres..." which means "I, Kurt Heinrich Sethe, was born in Berlin in 1869, on the day before the kalends of October," i.e. September 30. It seems unlikely he would mess up the date of his own birth, but accidents do happen. Does anyone have a source for this June 30 date? --Iustinus (talk) 04:11, 27 February 2008 (UTC)