Hermann Fränkel

Hermann Fränkel
Born Hermann Ferdinand Fränkel
(1888-05-07)May 7, 1888
Berlin, German Empire
Died April 8, 1977(1977-04-08) (aged 88)
Santa Cruz, California, U.S.
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.

Son of professor Max Fränkel and younger brother of de:Charlotte Fränkel, 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.

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  1. Fränkel, Hermann Ferdinand (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 0-15-127190-9.

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