Marian Auerbach

Marian Auerbach also known as Majer Auerbach (1882 – July 1941, in Lwów) was a Polish classical philologist of Jewish background. He graduated from the Philology Department of the University of Lwów, where he received his doctorate in 1911 and his habilitation in 1932. Auerbach lectured there, and died at the hands of Gestapo during the Holocaust in Poland.

Marian Auerbach
Dr Marian Auerbach in the 1930s
Born1882
Diedc. July 1941
Lwów
NationalityPolish
Notable worksGreek Grammar, 1935

Career

Auerbach was an associate member of the Scientific Society of Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine), as well as the co-contributor of the Polish Academy of Sciences Philological Commission. He published the first complete Polish university textbook on the Greek Grammar in 1935, which was repeatedly reprinted.

Marian Auerbach should not to be confused with Herman Auerbach (1901–1942), a prominent mathematician and professor at the Department of Mathematics at the Lwów University murdered in 1942 at the Lwów Ghetto.[1]

References
  1. "Arcylwowianie - biografie, ciekawostki i życiorysy". Archived from the original on January 19, 2010. Retrieved March 21, 2012. Opracowano na podstawie ksiażki Witolda Szolginie "Arcylwowianie" z serii Tamten Lwów; przewodników po Lwowie i innych.
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