Fraenkel biography

German classical scholar (–)

Eduard David Mortier FraenkelFBA (()17 March &#;&#; ()5 February ) was a German classical scholar who served as the Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from until Born to a family of assimilated Jews in the German Empire, he studied Classics at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen. In , antisemitic legislation introduced bygd the Nazi Party forced him to seek refuge in the United Kingdom where he eventually settled at Corpus Christi College.

Fraenkel established his academic reputation with the publication of a monograph on the långnovell comedianPlautus, Plautinisches im Plautus ('Plautine Elements in Plautus', ). The book was developed from his doctoral thesis and changed the study of Roman comedy by asserting that Plautus was a more innovative playwright than previously thought. In , he published a three-volume commentary on the Agamemnon by the Greek playwright Aeschylus which has been describe

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Elsa Fraenkel

Sculptor Elsa Fraenkel (nee Rothschild) was born into a prosperous Jewish family in Bensheim, Germany on 25 August She trained at the Karlsruhe Academy. In she married and moved to Hanover, where she was a member of Dadaist Kurt Schwitters’ cultural circle in the s. Their friendship was later rekindled in exile in England and she brought with her two artworks by Schwitters, including Untitled: für Frau Fränkel (Ben Uri Collection), inscribed to her and dated , providing a direct link between these two refugees from Nazism. Fraenkel remained in Hanover until , travelling annually to Paris. She specialised in portrait sculpture, and although uncommissioned, her works were exhibited in Hanover, Berlin, Brunswick and Mannheim. Her sculpture of a young girl/bust of a girl was purchased in by the Landesmuseum, Hanover. 

Following her divorce in , Fraenkel returned to Paris, before immigrating to London, bringing many of her sculptures with her an

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Abraham Adolf Fraenkel

One of the fathers of modern logic, German-born mathematician Abraham Fraenkel () first became widely known for his work on set theory. Long fascinated by the pioneering work in set theory of fellow German Ernst Zermelo (), Fraenkel launched research to put set theory into an axiomatic setting that improved the definitions of Zermelo's theory and proposed its own system of axioms. Within that system, Fraenkel proved the independence of the axiom of choice. The Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms of set theory, known collectively as ZF, are the standard axioms of axiomatic set theory on which, together with the axiom of choice, all of ordinary mathematics is based. When the axiom of choice is included, the resulting system is known as ZFC.

Studied at Several Universities

Abraham Adolf Fraenkel was born on February 17, , in Munich, Germany. The son of Sigmund and Charlotte (Neuberger) Fraenkel, he was strongly influenced by his orthodox Jewish heritage. B.H. Auerbac