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

. 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 literature ...

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

Marburg University The Philipps University of Marburg (german: Philipps-Universität Marburg) was founded in 1527 by Philip I, Landgrave of Hesse, which makes it one of Germany's oldest universities and the oldest still operating Protestant university in the wor ...

(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 Paul the Silentiary, also known as Paulus Silentiarius ( el, , died AD 575–580), was a Greek Byzantine poet and courtier to the emperor Justinian at Constantinople. Life What little we know of Paul's life comes largely from the contemporary ...

: 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 Universi ...

) * ''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 Jesuit scholar and polymath A polymath ( el, πολυμαθής, , "having learned much"; la, homo universalis, "universal human") is an individual whose knowledge spans ...

und

Leibniz Gottfried Wilhelm (von) Leibniz . ( – 14 November 1716) was a German polymath active as a mathematician, philosopher, scientist and diplomat. He is one of the most prominent figures in both the history of philosophy and the history of mathema ...

'', 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 German philologists University of California, Los Angeles faculty German male writers 20th-century philologists Nazi concentration camp survivors Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States {{Germany-academic-bio-stub

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