Paul Friedländer (philologist)
Paul Friedlander ( born March 21, 1882 in Berlin, † December 10, 1968 in Los Angeles ) was a German Hellenist with the main regions of Plato and Greek tragedy.
Life
Friedlander studied classical philology and archeology at the universities of Berlin and Bonn and received his PhD in 1905, Dr. phil. 1907/ 08 he was a fellow of the Imperial German Archaeological Institute, from 1909 he was a senior teacher at the Humboldt Gymnasium in Berlin.
In 1911 he completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin and was here in 1914 associate professor of physiology. During the First World War, Friedlander volunteered for military service.
In 1920 he became a full professor at the Philipps- University of Marburg, 1932 in Halle.
In 1935, he was dismissed as evangelical baptized " non-Aryans ". In the wake of Kristallnacht, he was arrested and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp. After a few weeks he was released. In 1939 he emigrated to the USA where he first taught at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. From 1940 to 1949 he taught at the University of California, Los Angeles, from 1945 as a professor.
Works
- Heracles: Say historical investigations. Berlin: Weidmann 1907
- John of Gaza and Paul Silentiarius: Art descriptions Justinian time. Leipzig [ua ]: Teubner 1912 (reprint: Hildesheim 1969)
- Tasks of classical studies at school and university, 1922 ( together with Walther Kranz )
- Greek tragedy and the tragic, 1925-1926
- Plato. 3 vols Berlin [ inter alia ]: De Gruyter 1928ff.
- Epigrammata, Greek inscriptions in verse, 1948
- Studies of ancient literature and art. Berlin: De Gruyter 1969