Paul Friedländer (philologist)

Paul Friedländer (March 21, 1882, Berlin – December 10, 1968, Los Angeles) 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 (1920), University of Halle (1932). 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 (1939), as a lecturer and at UCLA (1940–1945 as a lecturer, 1945– as a professor).

Works

 * Herakles: Sagengeschichtliche Untersuchungen. Berlin: Weidmann 1907
 * Johannes von Gaza und Paulus Silentiarius: Kunstbeschreibungen justinianischer Zeit. Leipzig : Teubner 1912 (Nachdruck: Hildesheim 1969)
 * Der grosse Alcibiades Band 1/2  Bonn: Friedrich Cohen 1921/23
 * Aufgaben der klassischen Studien an Schule und Universität, 1922 (with Walther Kranz)
 * Die griechische Tragödie und das Tragische, 1925–1926
 * Platon, 3 vols. Berlin: De Gruyter 1928 ff.
 * Plato: An Introduction. Translated by Hans Meyerhoff. 1973. ISBN 9780691017952.
 * 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