Paul Friedländer (philologist)
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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).