Alfred Gudeman

Alfred Gudeman as a student at Columbia University (1883)

Alfred Gudeman (born August 26, 1862 in Atlanta , † September 9, 1942 in Theresienstadt ) was an American-German classical philologist .

Life

Gudeman was born the oldest of four children. The family had moved to New York by 1865 at the latest . When his father went to Cuba and never returned, stepfather Solomon Zickel took over the care of the family. Zickel had come to New York from Germany and was so successful in publishing German weekly magazines that he was able to buy a house near Dresden where he would spend his retirement.

Gudeman studied at the Columbia University Classics and went to his bachelor's degree in 1883 at the University of Berlin to continue his studies at Hermann Diels deepen. From 1890 to 1893 he was a lecturer at Johns Hopkins University , from 1893 to 1902 professor at the University of Pennsylvania . In 1902 he moved to the chair at Cornell University . In 1904 he was the only American scientist to be appointed to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich . His three sisters also moved to Germany. Gudeman married a German woman and did not even return to the United States for a visit. In 1917 he received German citizenship.

Even after the seizure of power by the National Socialists Gudeman remained in the German Reich. The problems of Hitler's time become apparent in his correspondence from the spring of 1935. His son Theodore Gudeman was able to emigrate to the state of Indiana in 1937 , but Gudeman himself was not. Classified as a Jew , he was deported to the Theresienstadt camp, where he died on September 9, 1942 at the age of 80.

Gudeman's research focused on ancient Latin literature. His most important publications include a Commentary on the Poetics of Aristotle (1934), which was preceded by a widely used bibliography on this text (together with Lane Cooper, 1928), Latin Literature of the Empire (2 volumes, 1898–1899), History of Classical Philology (1902) and Imagines Philologorum (1911). Many of his writings were published in the German Empire.

Fonts (selection)

• De Heroidum Ovidii codice Planudeo quae supersunt . Berlin 1888 (dissertation; = Berlin studies on classical philology and archeology 8.2)
• Syllabus on the History of Classical Philology . Boston 1892
  • Revised edition under the title: Outlines of the History of Classical Philology . 2nd edition, Boston 1894. 3rd edition 1897
  • German edition: Outline of the history of classical philology . Leipzig and Berlin 1907. 2nd, expanded edition 1909. Reprint Darmstadt 1967
• P. Cornelii Taciti Dialogus de oratoribus. Edited with prolegomena, critical apparatus, exegetical and critical notes, bibliography and indexes . Boston 1894
• Latin Literature of the Empire . 2 volumes, New York and London 1898–1899
• P. Cornelii Taciti Dialogus with Introduction and Notes . Boston 1898
• P. Cornelii Taciti Agricola with Introduction and Notes . Boston 1899
• P. Cornelii Taciti De vita et moribus Iulii Agricolae et De Germania . Boston 1900
• P. Cornelii Taciti De vita et moribus Cn. Jul. Agricolae liber. Explained by Alfred Gudeman . Berlin 1902
• The Sources of Plutarch's Life of Cicero . Philadelphia 1902
• C. Sallusti Crispi Bellum Catilinae. With introduction, revised text, notes and vocabulary . New York 1904
• Imagines Philologorum. 160 portraits from the Renaissance to the present day . Leipzig and Berlin 1911
• P. Cornelii Taciti Dialogus de oratoribus. Prolegomena, text and adnotatio critica, exegetical and critical commentary, bibliography and index . 2nd, completely revised edition, Leipzig and Berlin 1914
• P. Cornelii Taciti De Germania. Explained by Alfred Gudeman . Berlin 1916
• Aristotle: About poetry . Leipzig 1921
• History of Latin Literature . 3 volumes, Berlin 1923–1924
  • Volume 1 (1923): From the Beginnings to the End of the Republic
  • Volume 2 (1923): The Imperial Era up to Hadrian
  • Volume 3 (1924): From Hadrian to the End of the 6th Century
• History of early Christian Latin literature from 2nd to 6th centuries Century . Berlin 1925
• with Lane Cooper: A Bibliography of the Poetics of Aristotle . New Haven and London 1928 (= Cornell Studies in English 11)
• Aristotle περὶ ποιητικῆς. With introduction, text and adnotatio critica, exegetical commentary, critical appendix and indices nominum, rerum, locorum . Berlin and Leipzig 1934

literature

• Donna W. Hurley: Alfred Gudeman: Atlanta, Georgia, 1862 - Theresienstadt, 1942 . In: Transactions of the American Philological Association . Volume 120 (1990), pp. 355-381 ( JSTOR 283997 )
• Donna W. Hurley: Alfred Gudeman in Berlin, 1935–1942 . In: Latin and Greek in Berlin . 35: 121-127 (1991)
• Donna W. Hurley: Gudeman, Alfred . In: Ward W. Briggs (ed.), Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists , Westport, CT / London: Greenwood Press 1994, ISBN 978-0-313245-60-2 , pp. 238 f.

Web links

Wikisource: Alfred Gudeman  - Sources and full texts

• Entry on Alfred Gudeman in the Database of Classical Scholars, written by Donna W. Hurley (English)
• Literature by Alfred Gudeman in the catalog of the German National Library
• Imagines Philologorum online
• Alfred Gudeman's Imagines Philologorum , 2nd Edition