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Frederick Brown ( born July 20, 1862 in St. Petersburg, † June 14, 1942 in Leipzig ) was a German scholar and philologist. He taught at the universities of St. Petersburg and Leipzig.

Life

The doctor's son Alexander Brown, whose ancestors came from Rüdesheim studied, since 1880 German at the universities of Freiburg, Paris and St. Petersburg. After 1885 he was a teacher at a high school. In 1888 he qualified as a professor in St. Petersburg for the Germanic Philology, there has been a lecturer and graduated two years later, without having a doctorate.

For Associate Professor Brown ultimately rose to in 1900, 1905 neat. This office he held until 1915. From 1895 to 1906 he was also editor of the St. Petersburg Society for Modern Languages ​​, then its president. In addition, he served as Dean of the historical - philosophical faculty.

1920 Brown moved to the University of Leipzig. There he was first lecturer of the Germanic Philology, two years later finally ordinary honorary professor of the history of Eastern Europe at the Institute for Cultural and Universal History. Full professor of this subject he has now in 1930, but the university left two years later. In November 1933, he was one of the signatories of the commitment of the professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state.

Brown died in 1942 in Leipzig at the age of 79 years. The marriage with Auguste Dorothea Kawizki came from the Göttingen philology professor Maximilian Braun ( 1903-1984 ).

Works

• The theaters of war in the Balkans (Leipzig / Berlin 1916)
• The indigenous people of Europe and the origin of Germanic (Berlin 1922)
• The japhetitische Caucasus and the third ethnic element in the educational process of the Mediterranean civilization (Berlin 1923)