Eduard Fraenkel
Eduard Fraenkel ( born March 17, 1888 in Berlin, † February 5, 1970 in Oxford ) was a German - English classical scholar.
Life
After leaving school, studied Fraenkel Classical Philology in Berlin and Göttingen, where he in 1912 Dr. phil. received his doctorate. After working in the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, he habilitated in 1917 in Berlin with studies on the originality of Plautus games. In 1920 he was appointed there as an adjunct professor. Three years later he accepted an appointment as Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Kiel. In 1928, he joined ( as successor to Richard Reitz stone) to Göttingen to the former chair of his teacher Friedrich Leo, three years later to Freiburg im Breisgau; In addition, he assumed representative lectures at the University of Basel.
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists Fraenkel was removed from office in 1934 and emigrated to England. From 1935 until his retirement in 1953 he worked as Professor of Latin Philology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 1951 Fraenkel was elected corresponding member of the Philosophy and History Class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
After his retirement, he held visiting professorships at several universities in Italy and Germany. The Faculty of the Free University of Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1963.
Fraenkel married in 1918 in Berlin Ruth von Velsen ( 1892-1970 ), younger sister of writer and women's rights activist Dorothee von Velsen ( 1883-1970 ). After her death, he chose over 80 years old, committed suicide. About his sister Lilli Eduard Fraenkel was with his namesake, the philologist Hermann Frankel, marriage.
Services
In his scientific work Fraenkel especially by his teachers Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff (Berlin ) and Friedrich Leo ( Göttingen) was coined. He researched well on the Greek dramatist Aristophanes, Euripides and Aeschylus as on the Latin poet Horace and his Greek roots, Cicero, the prosody and metrics in Latin and Roman law.
His students include, among many other Martin Litchfield West and Colin William MacLeod. Was considerably influenced by him Sebastiano Timpanaro, who got to know him in the host seminars Fraenkel several years held at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa.