Hermann Fränkel

Hermann Fränkel
Born May 7, 1888(1888-05-07)
Berlin, Germany
Died April 8, 1977(1977-04-08) (aged 88)
Santa Cruz, California
Citizenship United States
Nationality German Empire
Fields Classical studies
Institutions Stanford University
Alma mater University of Göttingen
Academic advisors Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Franz Bücheler
Friedrich Leo
Notable students Bruno Snell

Hermann Ferdinand Fränkel (May 7, 1888 – April 8, 1977) was a German American classical scholar. He served as professor of Ancient Greek philology at Stanford University until 1953.

Descent of an academic family, Fränkel studied classics at Berlin, Bonn and Göttingen. He later lectured at Göttingen, but was denied a professorship after the Machtergreifung. Eluding increasing racial discrimination by the Nazis, Fränkel immigrated to the United States in 1935. He was offered a professorship at Stanford only short after. He also held guest professorships at University of California, Berkeley and Cornell University.

Fränkel made important contributions to Early Greek poetry and philosophy interpretation.[1] His son Hans Fränkel became a noted scholar of Chinese.

References

  1. ^ ——— (1975) [1951]. Early Greek poetry and philosophy: A history of Greek epic, lyric, and prose to the middle of the fifth century. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. ISBN 0151271909.