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).

• 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