# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/friedrich-solmsen
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:51:59.573Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/friedrich-solmsen"
name: "Friedrich Solmsen"
slug: "friedrich-solmsen"
description: "Friedrich Heinrich Rudolf Solmsen was a German-American philologist and professor of classical studies. He published nearly 150 books, monographs, scholarly articles, and reviews from the 1930s through the 1980s. Solmsen's work is characterized by a prevailing interest in the history of ideas. He was an influential scholar in the areas of Greek tragedy, particularly for his work on Aeschylus, and the philosophy of the physical world and its relation to the soul, especially the systems of Plato and Aristotle."
tagline: "German classical scholar (1904-1989)"
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gender: "male"
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  isoCode: "US"
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  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1904-02-04"
deathDate: "1989-01-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump