Hermann Fränkel
Hermann Ferdinand Frankel ( born May 7, 1888 in Berlin, † April 8, 1977 in Santa Cruz, California ) was a German - American classical scholar.
Life
Frankel father was Max Classic philologist and librarian of the Berlin museums as well as employees of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, his grandfather Ferdinand Benary of orientalist. This Frankel came at a very young age of antiquity in touch. After high school he studied classical philology and German in Berlin, Bonn and Göttingen. Among his teachers were renowned philologist Ulrich von Wilamowitz- Moellendorff Bücheler Franz and Friedrich Leo. 1915 Frankel was phil at the Georg -August- University of Göttingen with the study De Simia Rhodio Dr.. doctorate. In the same year he married Lila the sister of his colleague and namesake Eduard Fraenkel.
After an interruption of his education, during which he participated as a trooper in the First World War, he completed his studies in 1920 with the state examination for teachers at secondary schools from. A little later he habilitated with a work on the parables in Homer. During his time as a private Frankel received while at the University of Göttingen the title of extraordinary professor, but because of his Jewish ancestry no reputation to full professor, although many of his well-known colleagues and students as Bruno Snell championed him.
After the seizure of power by the National Socialists and the intensification of racial discrimination Frankel emigrated in 1935 with his family over England in the United States. There he received an acting chair, which was converted into a full professorship due to the positive response of his students and colleagues at the University of Stanford. In addition, Frankel gave several lectures and talks as a guest lecturer, including at the University of California at Berkeley. After his retirement in 1953, he made an effort to appeal to Göttingen as his pension was very low. These efforts were in vain, and Frankel even had to fight for his pension as a professor, which was granted in February 1957. He held several visiting professorships at, inter alia, at Cornell University and from 1955 to 1960 in Freiburg im Breisgau, since 1956 as an honorary professor. In 1956 he was elected a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.
Services
Frankel is regarded as a subtle interpreter of Greek poetry and philosophy. He researched intensively on the development of styles from the early Greek poetry. In 1923 he founded his factory style A peculiarity of the early Greek literature before a detailed stylistic analysis of the works of Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus and Anacreon. With its approach to consider the literary work of art as a unity of style and content, it was classical philology ahead of his time. 1951 was published in the series Philological Monographs with poetry and philosophy of the early Greeks, a further study on the development of style and philosophy of the Greek Archaic period. In addition, Frankel also dealt with the Latin poets, especially Ovid. In his last years, its scientific interest, especially Apollonius of Rhodes and the ancient grammar. His last work was published in 1973 grammar and reality.