Paul Friedländer (March 21, 1882,

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– December 10, 1968,

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) was a

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philologist specializing in

classical literature Classics, also classical studies or Ancient Greek and Roman studies, is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, ''classics'' traditionally refers to the study of Ancient Greek and Roman literature and their original languages, ...

. He studied under

Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Enno Friedrich Wichard Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (22 December 1848 – 25 September 1931) was a German classical philologist. Wilamowitz, as he is known in scholarly circles, was a renowned authority on Ancient Greece and its literatur ...

at the

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. In 1911 he became a

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and from 1914 Associate Professor in Berlin, becoming a Professor at

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(1920),

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(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

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(1939), as a

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and at

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(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 Walther Kranz (; 23 November 1884 in Georgsmarienhütte – 18 September 1960 in Bonn) was a German classical philologist (the study of classical antiquity) and historian of philosophy. Biography Kranz studied classical philology at the Univers ...

) * ''Die griechische Tragödie und das Tragische'', 1925–1926 * ''Platon'', 3 vols. Berlin: De Gruyter 1928 ff. * Plato: An Introduction. Translated by Hans Meyerhoff. 1973. . * ''

Athanasius Kircher Athanasius Kircher (2 May 1602 – 27 November 1680) was a German Society of Jesus, Jesuit scholar and polymath who published around 40 major works of comparative religion, geology, and medicine. Kircher has been compared to fellow Jes ...

und

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (or Leibnitz; – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat who is credited, alongside Sir Isaac Newton, with the creation of calculus in addition to many ...

'', 1937. * ''Epigrammata. Greek inscriptions in verse''. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1948. * ''Studien zur antiken Literatur und Kunst.'' Berlin: De Gruyter 1969

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* https://archive.today/20120306102713/http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/00-03cal.html * http://www.pfl.uw.edu.pl/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=78&Itemid=51 * http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-29312 * http://texts.cdlib.org/view?docId=hb6h4nb3q7&chunk.id=div00016&brand=calisphere&doc.view=entire_text

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* 1882 births 1968 deaths Writers from Berlin People from the Province of Brandenburg University of California, Los Angeles faculty German male writers 20th-century German philologists Nazi concentration camp survivors Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States {{Germany-academic-bio-stub

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