Paul Friedländer (philologist)

Paul Friedländer (born March 21, 1882 in Berlin , † December 10, 1968 in Los Angeles ) was a German Graecist with the main areas of work Plato and Greek tragedy.

Life

Friedlander visited the Friedrichs-Gymnasium Berlin , where he completed Easter 1900, the High School, studied classical philology and archeology at the universities of Berlin and Bonn and received his doctorate in 1905 at Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff Dr. phil. In 1907/08 he received a scholarship from the Imperial German Archaeological Institute, and 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 in 1914 became a scheduled associate professor. In the First World War to Friedlander volunteered for military service.

In 1920 he became a full professor at the Philipps University of Marburg , and in 1932 at the Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg .

In 1935 he was released as a "non-Aryan" baptized as a Protestant . During the Reichspogromnacht he was arrested and deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp . He was released a few weeks later. In 1939 he emigrated to the USA , where he initially 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.

In 1946, the curator of the Martin Luther University, Friedrich Elchlepp , tried to get Paul Friedländer back as a full professor and informed him in a letter dated September 24 of the same year that his professorial position as a classical scholar had not yet been filled. The university curator received the address of the former Halle professor who emigrated to the USA from the Halle elementary school rector Arthur Fritz Köhn, born in 1893, who had worked in Halle (Saale) since May 1938. He was in correspondence with Friedländer mainly about the changes in Germany, while Elchlepp wanted to add his lecture on "the development of universities in the Soviet zone" to his letter, which he had given in March 1946 in the Kulturbund for the democratic renewal of Germany in Halle .

Since 1960 he has been a corresponding member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and, since 1965, of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .

Publications

• Heracles. Legendary studies. Weidmann, Berlin 1907.
• John of Gaza and Paul Silentiarius . Descriptions of art from the Justinian era. Teubner, Leipzig et al. 1912 (reprint Hildesheim 1969).
• The great Alcibiades. 2 volumes, Friedrich Cohen, Bonn 1921–1923.
• The task of classical studies at high school and university. Mittler, Berlin 1922 (together with Walther Kranz ).
• The Greek tragedy and the tragic. 3 parts, de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1925–1926.
• Plato. 2 volumes, de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1928–1930 (later editions in 3 volumes).
• with Hubert B. Hoffleit: Epigrammata. Greek inscriptions in verse. From the beginnings to the Persian wars. University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1948.
• Studies in ancient literature and art. de Gruyter, Berlin et al. 1969.

literature

• Inge Auerbach: Catalogus professorum academiae Marburgensis. Volume 2: From 1911 to 1971. Elwert, Marburg 1979, ISBN 3-7708-0662-X , p. 500 f.
• Hans-Georg Gadamer : Paul Friedländer (1882–1968). In: Eikasmós . Volume 4, 1993, pp. 179-182.
• Friedländer, Paul. In: Lexicon of German-Jewish Authors . Volume 8: Frie – Gers. Edited by the Bibliographia Judaica archive. Saur, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-598-22688-8 , pp. 144-148.
• German Biographical Encyclopedia . Volume 3, p. 453.
• Hans Peter Obermayer: From Sachsenhausen Concentration Camp to Los Angeles - Paul Friedländer. In: The same: German ancient scholars in American exile. A reconstruction. de Gruyter, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-11-030279-0 , pp. 597-672.
• Hans-Ulrich Berner, Mayya Pait. 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. 427 f.
• Kay Ehling: Paul Friedländer. A classic philologist between Wilamowitz and George. Hentrich & Hentrich Verlag, Berlin Leipzig, 2019, Jüdische Miniatures Vol. 238, ISBN 978-3-95565-322-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Paul Friedländer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Paul Friedländer's personnel sheet in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
• Entry on Paul Friedländer in the Database of Classical Scholars (English)
• Entry on Paul Friedländer in the Catalogus Professorum Halensis
• Friedländer, Paul. Hessian biography. (As of May 20, 2020). In: Landesgeschichtliches Informationssystem Hessen (LAGIS).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kay Ehling: A Philologist as an Archaeologist (Part 1) . A stumbling block for Paul Friedländer. In: Ancient World . Journal of Archeology and Cultural History. No. 1/2016 . von Zabern , 2016, ISBN 978-3-8053-5001-3 , ISSN  0003-570X , p. 77 .
2. ^ Letter from the curator of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg to Friedländer dated September 24, 1946 (UAH PA Friedländer PH 6289), published in: Hans Peter Obermayer: Deutsche Altertumswwissenschaftler im American Exil. A reconstruction. Berlin et al. 2014, p. 664.
3. ^ Personnel card for teachers in the archive database of the library for research on the history of education in Berlin; BBF Berlin ( Memento of the original from April 18, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
4. ^ Hans Peter Obermayer: German ancient scholars in American exile. A reconstruction. Berlin et al. 2014, p. 664.
5. ^ Members of the HAdW since it was founded in 1909. Paul Friedländer. Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, accessed on July 11, 2016 . 
6. ^ Paul Friedländer obituary at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (PDF file).