Alfred Gudeman

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Alfred Gudeman as student at Columbia University (1883)

Alfred Gudeman (August 26, 1862 – 9 September 1942) was an

classical scholar
.

Biography

He was born in

University of Berlin. From 1890 to 1893 he was reader in classical philology at Johns Hopkins University, from 1893 to 1902 professor in the University of Pennsylvania, and from 1902 to 1904 professor in Cornell University.[1]

He wrote Latin Literature of the Empire (2 vols., Prose and Poetry, 1898–1899), a History of Classical Philology (1902) and Sources of Plutarchs Life of Cicero (1902); and edited Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus (text with commentary, 1894 and 1898) and Agricola (1899; with Germania, 1900), and Sallust's Catiline (1903). In 1904 he became a member of the corps of scholars preparing the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, a unique distinction for an American Latinist, as was the publication of his critical edition, with German commentary, of Tacitus' Agricola in 1902 by the Weidmannsche Buchhandlung of Berlin.[1]

Gudeman married a German woman and, in 1917, received German nationality. Even after the seizure of power by the

Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he died in 1942.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Gudeman, Alfred". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 12 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 667.
  2. JSTOR 283997
    .

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