Friedrich Solmsen
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1904 – 1989
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Who was Friedrich Solmsen?
Friedrich W. Solmsen was a philologist and professor of classical studies. He published nearly 150 books, monographs, scholarly articles, and reviews from the 1930s through the 1980s. Solmsen's work is characterized by a prevailing interest in the history of ideas. He was an influential scholar in the areas of Greek tragedy, particularly for his work on Aeschylus, and the philosophy of the physical world and its relation to the soul, especially the systems of Plato and Aristotle.
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- Born
- Feb 4, 1904
Bonn - Nationality
- United States of America
- Education
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Died
- Jan 30, 1989
Chapel Hill
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on July 23, 2013
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