Eduard Norden

When Norden received an honorary doctorate from Harvard, James Bryant Conant referred to him as "the most famous Latinist in the world".

[3] Because of the antisemitic Nuremberg Laws of 1935 already in December 1935 Norden lost the right to hold lectures at the University of Berlin.

[4] Reacting to pressure by the Ministry of Education in 1938 the Berlin Academy of Science urged Norden to quit his membership there.

[5] The 1938 Jewish tax forced him to sell his house and portions of his library, and he lost his right to use university facilities.

Today the best known of Norden's scientific works is Antike Kunstprosa (1898), which centers on problems of rhetoric.