Paul Friedländer

Paul Friedländer (March 21, 1882, Berlin – December 10, 1968, Los Angeles) was a German philologist specializing in classical literature and UCLA professor.

Biography 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 antisemite policies of the Nazi regime forced him to resign; in 1938 he was detained in the Sachsenhausen-Oranienburg concentration camp. After his release, he managed to escape Germany and emigrated to the United States.

In the United States, he taught at Johns Hopkins University in 1939, and later as a lecturer and at UCLA (1940–1945 as a lecturer, after 1945 as a professor).

Selected 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. . 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