Paul Friedländer (philologist)
Paul Friedländer was a German philologist specializing in classical literature.
He studied under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff at the University of Berlin. In 1911 he became a Privatdozent and from 1914 Associate Professor in Berlin, becoming a Professor at Marburg University, University of Halle. In 1935, the Nazi regime forced him to resign and in 1938 he was detained in a concentration camp. After his release, he came to the United States, where he taught first at and Johns Hopkins University, as a lecturer and at UCLA.Works
- Herakles: Sagengeschichtliche Untersuchungen. Berlin: Weidmann 1907
- Johannes von Gaza und Paulus Silentiarius: Kunstbeschreibungen justinianischer Zeit. Leipzig : Teubner 1912
- Der grosse Alcibiades Band 1/2 Bonn: Friedrich Cohen 1921/23
- Aufgaben der klassischen Studien an Schule und Universität, 1922
- Die griechische Tragödie und das Tragische, 1925-1926
- Platon, 3 vols. Berlin: De Gruyter 1928 ff.
- Plato: An Introduction. Translated by Hans Meyerhoff. 1973. .
- Athanasius Kircher und Leibniz, 1937.
- Epigrammata. Greek inscriptions in verse. Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1948.
- Studien zur antiken Literatur und Kunst. Berlin: De Gruyter 1969
