Paul Friedländer (philologist)
Paul Friedländer (March 21, 1882, Berlin - December 10, 1968, Los Angeles) was a German philologist specializing in classical literature.
He studied under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff at the University of Berlin. In 1911 he became a Privatdozent and from 1914 Associate Professor in Berlin, becoming a Professor at Marburg University (1920), University of Halle (1932). In 1935, the Nazi regime forced him to resign and in 1938 he was detained in a concentration camp. After his release, he came to the United States, where he taught first at and Johns Hopkins University (1939), as a lecturer and at UCLA (1940-1945 as a lecturer, 1945- as a professor).
Works
- Herakles: Sagengeschichtliche Untersuchungen. Berlin: Weidmann 1907
- Johannes von Gaza und Paulus Silentiarius: Kunstbeschreibungen justinianischer Zeit. Leipzig : Teubner 1912 (Nachdruck: Hildesheim 1969)
- Der grosse Alcibiades Band 1/2 Bonn: Friedrich Cohen 1921/23
- Aufgaben der klassischen Studien an Schule und Universität, 1922 (with Walther Kranz)
- Die griechische Tragödie und das Tragische, 1925-1926
- Platon, 3 vols. Berlin: De Gruyter 1928 ff.
- Plato: An Introduction. Translated by Hans Meyerhoff. 1973. ISBN 9780691017952.
- Athanasius Kircher und Leibniz, 1937.
- Epigrammata. Greek inscriptions in verse. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1948.
- Studien zur antiken Literatur und Kunst. Berlin: De Gruyter 1969
External links
- https://archive.is/20120306102713/http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/00-03cal.html (in English)
- http://www.pfl.uw.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=78&Itemid=51 (in Polish)
- http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-29312
- http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb6h4nb3q7&chunk.id=div00016&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text
See also
- Calder, William M. III and Bernhard Huss (eds), 'The Wilamowitz in Me': 100 Letters between Ulrich von Wilamovitz-Moellendorff and Paul Friedlaender (1904–1931) (Los Angeles: Charles Young Research Library, University of California, 1999). OCLC 464968784.
- Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Zweiter Band: 1910 bis 1971. Marburg 1979, S. 500–501
- Hans-Georg Gadamer: Paul Friedländer (1882–1968). In: Eikasmós. Band 4 (1993), S. 179–182.
- Hans Peter Obermayer: "Vom KZ Sachsenhausen nach Los Angeles – Paul Friedländer". In: id., "Deutsche Altertumswissenschaftler im amerikanischen Exil. Eine Rekonstruktion". Berlin: De Gruyter Berlin 2014, p. 597–672.
- Walter Tetzlaff: 2000 Kurzbiographien bedeutender deutscher Juden des 20. Jahrhunderts. Lindhorst: Askania 1982, S. 92.
- Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie. Band 3, S. 453.
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