Editing Ada Adler (section)

== Scholarly career ==
She is best known for her critical, standard edition of the ''[[Suda]]'', which she published in 5 volumes (Leipzig, 1928–1938). She also contributed several articles to [[Pauly–Wissowa]]'s ''Realencyclopädie''. In 2016, Oxford University Press published a collection of essays honouring female classical scholars. The chapter on Adler was written by Catharine Roth, a current managing editor of the ''Suda On Line Project''; Roth contextualizes 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<ref name=Roth2 /> (although the immense majority of scholarly cataloguing was also carried out by men at the time). Classical scholar William Calder, professor emeritus in classics at the [[University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign]], called Adler "incontestably the greatest woman philologist who ever lived'.<ref name=Calder /> German classical scholar [[Otto Weinreich]], who lived roughly contemporary to Adler, called her edition of the ''Suda'' "''bewundernswert''" (worthy of admiration) in 1929, shortly after the appearance of the first volume.<ref name=Weinreich />

In 1916, she published a catalog of [[Greek language|Greek]] manuscripts in the [[Danish Royal Library]]. The collection had been compiled by [[Daniel Gotthilf Moldenhawer]], who was the chief librarian in the eighteenth century.<ref name=Roth2/> Adler was convinced some of the manuscripts in it had been stolen by Moldenhawer from libraries elsewhere in Europe.<ref name=Roth /> In 1931, she was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]], a Danish award for women's achievements in art and science.<ref name=Jensen /> At the time of her death, she had made substantial progress towards a first edition of the ''[[Etymologicum Genuinum]]'', a project continued under the direction of Klaus Alpers.<ref name=Roth />

Her work is noted to have been completed in both Rome and Florence in 1913 through the spring of 1914, and later years (1919 and 1920) in Paris, Venice, Oxford, and Florence.<ref name=Roth2/>