Paul Friedländer (philologist)

Paul Friedländer (March 21, 1882, Berlin - December 10, 1968, Los Angeles) was a German philologist specializing in classical literature.

He studied under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff at the University of Berlin. In 1911 he became a Privatdozent and from 1914 Associate Professor in Berlin, becoming a Professor at Marburg University (1920), University of Halle (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 (1939), as a lecturer and at UCLA (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)
  • Die griechische Tragödie und das Tragische, 1925-1926
  • Platon, 3 vols. Berlin: De Gruyter 1928 ff.
  • Plato: An Introduction. Translated by Hans Meyerhoff. 1973. ISBN 9780691017952.
  • Athanasius Kircher und Leibniz, 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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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: 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. Band 3, S. 453.


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