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{{Short description|American-German classical philologist (1862–1942)}}
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[[File:Alfred Gudeman.jpg|thumb|Alfred Gudeman as student at Columbia University (1883)]]
'''Alfred Gudeman''' (August 26, 1862{{snd}}9 September 1942) was an [[United States|American]]-[[Germany|German]] [[classical scholar]].

==Biography==
He was born in [[Atlanta, Georgia]] and graduated from [[Columbia University]] in 1883 and studied under [[Johannes Vahlen]] and [[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]].<ref name="EB1911">{{EB1911|inline=y|wstitle=Gudeman, Alfred|volume=12|page=667}}</ref>

He wrote ''Latin Literature of the Empire'' (2 vols., ''Prose and Poetry'', 1898–1899), a ''History of Classical Philology'' (1902) and ''Sources of Plutarchs Life of Cicero'' (1902); and edited Tacitus' ''Dialogus de oratoribus'' (text with commentary, 1894 and 1898) and ''Agricola'' (1899; with Germania, 1900), and [[Sallust]]'s ''Catiline'' (1903).
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 (book)|Agricola]]'' in 1902 by the [[Weidmannsche Buchhandlung]] of Berlin.<ref name="EB1911"/>

Gudeman married a German woman and, in 1917, received German nationality. Even after the seizure of power by the [[Nazi Party|National Socialists]], Gudeman remained in Germany. His son Theodore emigrated to [[Indiana]] in 1937, but Gudeman himself remained. He was classified as a [[Jews|Jew]] and deported to the Nazi [[Theresienstadt concentration camp]], where he died in 1942.<ref name="Hurley">{{cite journal|last=Hurley|first=Donna W.|year=1990|title=Alfred Gudeman, Atlanta, Georgia, 1862—Theresienstadt, 1942|journal=[[Transactions of the American Philological Association]]|publisher=[[Johns Hopkins University Press]]|volume=120|pages=355–381|doi=10.2307/283997|jstor=283997}}</ref>

== References ==
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== Sources ==
* Donna Hurley, "[https://www.jstor.org/pss/283997 Alfred Gudeman, Atlanta, Georgia, 1862-Theresienstadt, 1942]", ''[[Transactions of the American Philological Association|TAPA]]'' 120 (1990) pp.&nbsp;355–381

== External links ==
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*[http://imaginesphilologorum.net Alfred Gudeman's ''Imagines Philologorum'', 2nd Edition]

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