Max Fränkel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Max Fränkel

German classical scholar

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1846

Place of Birth: Gorzów Wielkopolski, Lubusz Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 10-Jun-1903

Profession: librarian, archaeologist, linguist, classical philologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Max Fränkel (Landsberg an der Warthe, 11 March 1846 – Berlin, 10 June 1903) was a German Jewish classical scholar, philologist, epigrapher and librarian.
His primary area of study was classical Greek.
He did not interest himself in the physical stones of the inscriptions or archaeology but in the texts themselves.
His collection of Greek inscriptions from Pergamon is still a standard reference source.
He was the father of the archaeologist de: Charlotte Fränkel (1880-1933), and of the classicist Hermann Fränkel, who in 1935 emigrated to America.