Charlotte Fränkel (25 August 1880 – 7 December 1933) was a German classical archaeologist and teacher.

Biography

She was taught by

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and graduated from the Luisengymnasium Berlin on 29 October 1900. She studied classical archaeology at the

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and the

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, passing the Rigorosum in Bonn on 30 November 1911. Her 1912 doctoral thesis was titled ''Satyr- und Bakchennamen auf Vasenbildern''. Fränkel was one of only five women who received a doctorate in classical archaeology before the First World War (The others were:

Margarete Bieber Margarete Bieber (31 July 1879 – 25 February 1978) was a Jewish German-American art historian, classical archaeologist and professor. She became the second woman university professor in Germany in 1919 when she took a position at the Univ ...

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, Margret Heinemann, Viktoria von Lieres und Wilkau). In August 1914, she became a high school teacher and worked at the Augusta School in Berlin. From 1922 she worked at a municipal college in Berlin. On 1 September 1933, she was forced to retire early due to implementation of the

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under the

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regime in Germany.

Personal life

Charlotte Fränkel was the daughter of the classical philologist

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and sister of

Hermann Fränkel Hermann Ferdinand Fränkel (May 7, 1888 – April 8, 1977) was a German American classical scholar. He served as professor of Ancient Greek philology at Stanford University until 1953. Son of professor Max Fränkel and younger brother of Charlot ...

. In 1915, she married fellow archaeologist

Georg Loeschcke Georg Loeschcke (28 June 1852 – 26 November 1915) was a German archaeologist born in Penig, Saxony. He studied archaeology under Johannes Overbeck at Leipzig, afterwards continuing his education at the University of Bonn, where he was a stu ...

Publications

*Fränkel, C. 1912. "Korinthische Posse", in Rheinisches Museum no 67, 94–106. *Fränkel, C. 1912..
Satyr - und Bakchennamen auf Vasenbildern
'. Niemeyer, Halle.

References

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''; whose references include: *Irma Wehgartner: Spurensuche. Frauen in der Klassischen Archäologie vor dem 1. Weltkrieg. In: Julia K. Koch, Eva-Maria Mertens (Hrsg.): Eine Dame zwischen 500 Herren. Johanna Mestorf – Werk und Wirkung. Waxmann, Münster u. a. 2002, , (Frauen – Forschung – Archäologie 4), S. 267–279. *William M. Calder III, Bernhard Huss (Hrsg.): „Sed serviendum officio ...“ The Correspondence between Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff und Eduard Norden (1892–1931). Weidmann, Hildesheim 1997, , S. 133–135, 286. {{DEFAULTSORT:Fränkel, Charlotte 1880 births 1933 deaths German women classical scholars Archaeologists from Berlin German archaeologists German women archaeologists German classical scholars University of Bonn alumni German schoolteachers