Eduard Fraenkel

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Eduard David Mortier Fraenkel (born March 17, 1888 in Berlin , † February 5, 1970 in Oxford ) was a German-English classical philologist .

Life

After graduating from school, Fraenkel studied classical philology in Berlin and Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1912. phil. received his doctorate. After working at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich , he completed his habilitation in 1917 in Berlin with investigations into the originality of the Plautinian parts. In 1920 he was appointed an extraordinary professor there. Three years later he accepted an appointment as a full professor of classical philology at the University of Kiel . In 1928 he moved (as the successor to Richard Reitzenstein ) to Göttingen to the previous chair of his teacher Friedrich Leo , and three years later to Freiburg i. Br .; in addition, he held lectures at the University of Basel.

From 1930 he was a full member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences (external member from 1931). After the takeover of the Nazis Fraenkel was on ministerial instruction by Martin Heidegger removed from office and emigrated in 1934 to England. He was struck off the list of members of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences in 1939. From 1935 until his retirement in 1953 he was professor of Latin philology at Corpus Christi College, Oxford . In 1941 he became a member of the British Academy . In 1951 Fraenkel was elected a corresponding member of the philosophical-historical class of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

After his retirement he accepted visiting professorships at various universities in Italy and Germany. The Philosophical Faculty of the Free University of Berlin awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1963.

Fraenkel married Ruth von Velsen (1892–1970), younger sister of the writer and women's rights activist Dorothee von Velsen (1883–1970) in Berlin in 1918 . One of his sons is the British mathematician Ludwig Edward Fraenkel . After the death of his wife, over 80 years old, he committed suicide. Eduard Fraenkel was related by marriage to his namesake, the classical philologist Hermann Fränkel , through his sister Lilli .

Services

In his scientific work, Fraenkel was mainly influenced by his teachers Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (Berlin) and Friedrich Leo (Göttingen). He researched the Greek playwrights Aristophanes , Euripides and Aeschylus as well as the Latin poet Horace and his Greek roots, Cicero , the prosody and metrics in Latin and Roman law .

Martin Litchfield West and Colin William MacLeod are among his students . Sebastiano Timpanaro , who met him in the guest seminars that Fraenkel held at the Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa for several years , was also significantly influenced by him .

Fonts (selection)

  • Nicholas Horsfall : Eduard Fraenkel: Bibliography. In: Journal of Roman Studies 66, 1976, 200-205.
  • 1922 Plautinisches im Plautus , Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung ( Google Books ).
  • 1926 The place of the Romans in the humanistic education , Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
  • 1928 ictus and accent in Latin spoken verse , Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
  • 1930 Thoughts on a German Vergilfeier , Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
  • 1933 The Pindar poem of Horace , Heidelberg: Carl Winter.
  • 1950 Aeschylus: Agamemnon (Edited With A Commentary [in three volumes]), Oxford: Clarendon.
  • 1957 The seven pairs of speeches in the Theban drama of Aeschylus , Munich: Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
  • 1957 Horace , Oxford: Clarendon (German Horace , Darmstadt: WBG 1963, etc.).
  • 1962 Observations on Aristophanes , Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Letteratura.
  • 1963 To the Phoenissen des Euripides , Munich: Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
  • 1965 Once again Kolon and Satz , Munich: Bavarian Academy of Sciences.
  • 2015 Josef Delz , Eduard Fraenkel. Correspondence 1947–1969. A scholarly friendship. Edited by Georg Schwarz, Oleg Nikitinski . SYMPOSION eleutheron, Munich 2015. ( ISBN 978-3-928411-81-3 ; см. WorldCat ).

literature

  • Hans-Ulrich Berner, Mayya Pait: Fraenkel, Ernst. In: Peter Kuhlmann , Helmuth Schneider (Hrsg.): History of the ancient sciences. Biographical Lexicon (= The New Pauly . Supplements. Volume 6). Metzler, Stuttgart / Weimar 2012, ISBN 978-3-476-02033-8 , Sp. 415-417.
  • William M. Calder III : Seventeen Letters of Ulrich from Wilamowitz-Moellendorff to Eduard Fraenkel. In: Harvard Studies in Classical Philology . Volume 81, 1977, pp. 275-297.
  • Peter J. Conradi: Iris Murdoch. A life. New York / London 2001, pp. 114-122, 495-496, 614-616.
  • Marcus Deufert : Eduard Fraenkel. In: Robert B. Todd (Ed.): The Dictionary of British Classicists. Volume 1, Thoemmes Continuum, Bristol 2004, ISBN 1-85506-997-0 , pp. 334-337.
  • Paul Dräger : Twelve letters (1907–1921) by Eduard Fraenkel (1888–1970) to Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff (1848–1931). In: Göttingen Forum for Classical Studies . Volume 10, 2007, pp. 107-145 ( online ).
  • Nicholas Horsfall: Eduard Fraenkel. In: Ward W. Briggs Jr., William M. Calder III (Eds.): Classical Scholarship. A Biographical Encyclopedia. New York / London 1990, pp. 61-67.
  • Heinrich Krämer: Nine scholarly lives on the edge of power. The publisher's catalog BG Teubner, Leipzig-Berlin 1933: Eduard Norden, Paul Maas, Eduard Fraenkel, Eugen Täubler, Alfred Einstein, Albert Einstein, Max Born, Hermann Weyl, Franz Ollendorff. 2nd, revised and expanded edition. Leipzig 2011.
  • Dietfried Krömer : Eduard Fraenkel (1888–1970). In: Eikasmós . Volume 4, 1993, pp. 169-174.
  • Hugh Lloyd-Jones : Fraenkel, Eduard David Mortier (1888-1970). In: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography . Oxford 2004, ( online , last accessed January 17, 2005).
  • Sesto Prete: Lettere di Edoardo Fraenkel a Günther Jachmann. 2 volumes (1910–1916, 1917–1920), Fano 1996–1997.
  • Stephanie West: Eduard Fraenkel in Oxford. In: Wlodzimierz Appel (ed.): Magistri et discipuli. Chapter on the history of classical studies in the 20th century. Toruń 2002, ISBN 83-231-1521-4 , pp. 51–70.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 83.
  2. ^ Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, The members of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences who were deprived of their rights and expelled in the Third Reich: biographical portraits , Universitätsverlag 2009, p. 21
  3. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Eduard Fraenkel. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 9, 2016 .

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personal data
SURNAME Fraenkel, Eduard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Fraenkel, Eduard David Mortier (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-British classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1888
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin
DATE OF DEATH 5th February 1970
Place of death Oxford