Alfred Gudeman

Who was Alfred Gudeman?

Alfred Gudeman was an American classical scholar.

He was born in Atlanta, Georgia and graduated from 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, a History of Classical Philology and Sources of Plutarchs Life of Cicero; and edited Tacitus' Dialogus de oratoribus and Agricola, and Sallust's Catiline.

Gudeman died in the Nazi Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1942.