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

Calder, William M. III and Bernhard Huss (еds), '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.

Authority control	WorldCat Identities VIAF: 36927566 LCCN: n50024044 ISNI: 0000 0001 1054 9214 GND: 116800984 SUDOC: 028101995 BNF: cb12000349m (data)

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 4/7/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.