Hermann Ferdinand Fränkel (May 7, 1888 – April 8, 1977) was a
German American
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classical scholar. He served as professor of
Ancient Greek philology at
Stanford University
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until 1953.
Son of professor
Max Fränkel Max Fränkel (Landsberg an der Warthe, 11 March 1846 – Berlin, 10 June 1903) was a German Jewish classical scholar, philologist, epigrapher and librarian.Kleine Schriften - Volume 3 - Page 460 Hermann Usener - 2010 "Die Verwaltung der königlichen ...
and younger brother of
Charlotte Fränkel
Charlotte Fränkel (25 August 1880 – 7 December 1933) was a German classical archaeologist and teacher.
Biography
She was taught by Helene Lange and graduated from the Luisengymnasium Berlin on 29 October 1900. She studied classical archaeolo ...
, Fränkel studied classics at Berlin, Bonn and Göttingen. He later lectured at Göttingen, but was denied a professorship after the
Machtergreifung
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. Eluding increasing racial discrimination by the Nazis, Fränkel immigrated to the United States in 1935. He was offered a professorship at Stanford shortly after. He also held guest professorships at
University of California, Berkeley and
Cornell University.
Fränkel made important contributions to Early Greek poetry and philosophy interpretation.
His son
Hans Fränkel became a noted scholar of
Chinese literature.
Bibliography
* 1921 ''Die homerischen Gleichnisse'', Göttingen:
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
* 1930 ''Parmenidesstudien'', Berlin:
Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
* 1945 ''Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds'', Berkeley: University of California Press.
* 1951 ''Dichtung und Philosophie des frühen Griechentums'', New York:
American Philological Association
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.
* 1955 ''Wege und Formen frühgriechischen Denkens'', Munich: Beck.
* 1957 ''Wege der Wissenschaft zur Wirklichkeit'', Freiburg: H.F. Schulz.
* 1961 ''Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica'', Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts)
* 1964 ''Einleitung zur kritischen Ausgabe der Argonautika des Apollonios'', Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
* 1968 ''Noten zu den Argonautika des Apollonios'', Munich: Beck.
* 1974 ''Grammatik und Sprachwirklichkeit'', Munich: Beck.
Notes
External links
Memorial Resolution
1888 births
1977 deaths
Jewish emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
American classical scholars
Stanford University Department of Classics faculty
Corresponding Fellows of the British Academy
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