Paul Friedländer (March 21, 1882,
Berlin
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– December 10, 1968,
Los Angeles
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) was a
German
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philologist specializing in
classical literature
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.
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
University of Berlin
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. In 1911 he became a
Privatdozent
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and from 1914 Associate Professor in Berlin, becoming a Professor at
Marburg University
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(1920),
University of Halle
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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
Johns Hopkins University
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(1939), as a
lecturer
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and at
UCLA
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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
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: 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
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und
Leibniz
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'', 1937.
* ''Epigrammata. Greek inscriptions in verse''. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1948.
* ''Studien zur antiken Literatur und Kunst.'' Berlin: De Gruyter 1969
External links
* 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
See also
* Calder, William M. III and Bernhard Huss (eds), '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
Hans-Georg Gadamer (; ; February 11, 1900 – March 13, 2002) was a German philosopher of the continental tradition, best known for his 1960 ''magnum opus'', '' Truth and Method'' (''Wahrheit und Methode''), on hermeneutics.
Life
Family an ...
: ''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.
* ''
Deutsche Biographische Enzyklopädie
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''. Band 3, S. 453.
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1882 births
1968 deaths
Writers from Berlin
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Nazi concentration camp survivors
Emigrants from Nazi Germany to the United States
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