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Eduard Fraenkel (1888–1970) was a German classical scholar who served as the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford in England from 1935 until 1953. Born to a family of assimilated Jews in the German Empire, he studied Classics at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen. He established his academic reputation in 1922 with the publication of a monograph on the Roman comedian Plautus. In 1934, antisemitic legislation introduced by the Nazi Party forced him to seek refuge. He published a three-volume commentary in 1950 on Agamemnon by the Greek playwright Aeschylus, and a monograph in 1957 on the Roman poet Horace. Biographers place particular emphasis on the impact of his teaching at Oxford, where he led a weekly classical seminar that influenced the intellectual development of many undergraduates. The Hellenist Hugh Lloyd-Jones described Fraenkel as "one of the most learned classical scholars of his time". (Full article...)
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