Alfred Gudeman

Alfred Gudeman (August 26, 1862 – 9 September 1942) was an American-German classical scholar.

[1] 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 in 1902 by the Weidmannsche Buchhandlung of Berlin.

Even after the seizure of power by the National Socialists, Gudeman remained in Germany.

He was classified as a Jew and deported to the Nazi Theresienstadt concentration camp, where he died in 1942.