Alfred Gudeman

Alfred Gudeman (August 26 1862 - 1942) was an American classical scholar.

He was born in Atlanta, Georgia, graduated at Columbia University in 1883 and studied under Hermann Diels at the 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. 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. 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 Sallusts "Catiline" (1903).

He died in the Nazi concentration camp Theresienstadt in 1942.

References

* Donna Hurley, "Alfred Gudeman, Atlanta, Georgia, 1862-Theresienstadt, 1942", "TAPA" 120 (1990) pp. 355-381

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