Hermann Ferdinand Fränkel (May 7, 1888 – April 8, 1977) was a
German American classical scholar. He served as professor of
Ancient Greek
Ancient Greek includes the forms of the Greek language used in ancient Greece and the ancient world from around 1500 BC to 300 BC. It is often roughly divided into the following periods: Mycenaean Greek (), Dark Ages (), the Archaic p ...
philology at
Stanford University until 1953.
Son of professor
Max Fränkel and younger brother of
Charlotte Fränkel, Fränkel studied classics at Berlin, Bonn and Göttingen. He later lectured at Göttingen, but was denied a professorship after the
Machtergreifung. 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
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and
Cornell University
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.
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
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht (V&R) is a scholarly publishing house based in Göttingen, Germany. It was founded in 1735 by (1700-1750) in connection with the establishment of the Georg-August-Universität in the same city.
After Abraham Vandenhoec ...
.
* 1930 ''Parmenidesstudien'', Berlin:
Weidmannsche Buchhandlung
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History
Weidmannsche Buchhandlung was established in 1680 in Frankfurt by Moritz Georg Weid ...
.
* 1945 ''Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds'', Berkeley: University of California Press.
* 1951 ''Dichtung und Philosophie des frühen Griechentums'', New York:
American Philological Association.
* 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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