Thomas G. Rosenmeyer
Thomas Gustav Rosenmeyer (April 3, 1920 – February 6, 2007) was a German-American scholar of classical literature. He was a Professor Emeritus of Classics and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, and his main interest was the literature of ancient Greece, especially Plato.
Rosenmeyer was born in Hamburg, Germany, and attended the Gelehrtenschule des Johanneums. He left Germany for England in 1939 and was interned as a German citizen, then sent to Canada, where he was imprisoned with peers such as Martin Ostwald and Emil Fackenheim. After being released in 1942, he earned his BA at McMaster University in 1944, his MA at the University of Toronto in 1945, and his PhD at Harvard in 1949. He taught at the University of Iowa, Smith College, and the University of Washington before moving to Berkeley.
He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1987 and to the American Philosophical Society in 2000. Rosenmeyer died of cardiac arrest in Oakland, California, in 2007.
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