Hermann Fränkel

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.

Bibliography

• 1921 Die homerischen Gleichnisse, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• 1930 Parmenidesstudien, Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung.
• 1945 Ovid: A Poet Between Two Worlds, Berkeley: University of California Press.
• 1951 Dichtung und Philosophie des frühen Griechentums, New York: American Philological Association.
• 1955 Wege und Formen frühgriechischen Denkens, Munich: Beck.
• 1957 Wege der Wissenschaft zur Wirklichkeit, Freiburg: H.F. Schulz.
• 1961: Apollonius Rhodius: Argonautica, Oxford: Oxford University Press (Oxford Classical Texts)
• 1964 Einleitung zur kritischen Ausgabe der Argonautika des Apollonios, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht.
• 1968 Noten zu den Argonautika des Apollonios, Munich: Beck.
• 1974 Grammatik und Sprachwirklichkeit, Munich: Beck.

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References

• Memorial Resolution