Friedrich Solmsen

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Friedrich W. Solmsen (born 1905; died January 30, 1989, in Chapel Hill, North Carolina) German classical philologist.

Solmsen was educated in Germany and came to the United States to teach at Olivet College (1937 to 1940) and Cornell University. In 1962 he became the Moses Slaughter Professor of Classical Studies at the University of Wisconsin at Madison and retired in 1974, at which time he moved to Chapel Hill and the University of North Carolina where he had a relationship with the department of Classics. A large portion of Solmsen's library was donated to the University of North Carolina. He is particularly known for his preparation of the definitive edition of the works of Hesiod.

In 1972 he won the Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association for his text Hesiodi Theogonia Opera et Dies Scutum.

[edit] Selected works

"The Aristotelian Tradition in Ancient Rhetoric" American Journal of Philology 1941.
The "Gift" of Speech in Homer and Hesiod" Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological 1954.
Aristotle's System of the Physical World: A Comparison with His Predecessors (Cornell University Press, 1960).
'Hesiodi Theogonia; Opera et dies; Scutum' (Oxford Classical Texts, 1970).
Intellectual Experiments of the Greek Enlightenment (Princeton, 1975).
Die Entwicklung der aristotelischen Logik und Rhetorik (A revision of the author's thesis, Berlin, 1928): http://books.google.com/books?id=1ZUFMhFigj4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=solmsen&lr=&hl=pl&sig=GTdkHN9FJr7eA15eEm-fIGqFjHY