Hermann Fränkel

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name = Hermann Fränkel

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birth_date = birth date|1888|5|7
birth_place = Berlin, Germany
death_date = death date and age|1977|4|8|1888|5|7
death_place = Santa Cruz, California
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citizenship = flag|United States
nationality = flag|German Empire
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fields = Classical studies
workplaces = Stanford University
alma_mater = University of Göttingen
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academic_advisors = Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff
Franz Bücheler
Friedrich Leo
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notable_students = Bruno Snell
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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.

Descent of an academic family, 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. [cite book |title=Early Greek poetry and philosophy: A history of Greek epic, lyric, and prose to the middle of the fifth century |last=——— |first= |authorlink= |origyear=1951 |year=1975 |publisher=Harcourt Brace Jovanovich |location=New York |isbn=0151271909 |pages= |url= ]

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