What organization did Wolfgang Schadewaldt join in 1961?
Wolfgang Schadewaldt Wolfgang Schadewaldt ( 15 March 1900 in Berlin – 10 November 1974 in Tübingen ) was a German classical philologist working mostly in the field of Greek philology and a translator . He also was a professor of University of Tübingen and University of Freiburg . Biography . The son of a Berlin doctor , Schadewalt studied classical philology , archaeology , and German literature at the Friedrich Wilhelm University ( now the Humboldt University of Berlin ) under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff and Werner Jaeger . After his doctorate ( 1924 ) and Habilitation ( 1927 ) , he was a Docent at the university . In 1928 he was appointed Professor at the University of Königsberg . He moved in 1929 to the University of Freiburg , where as Dean in 1933 he was a supporter of the Rectorship of his friend Martin Heidegger and of Nazi policies in higher education . In 1934 , however , he resigned as Dean and in the fall moved to the University of Leipzig as the successor to Erich Bethe . Schadewaldt was a co-editor of the philological journal Hermes from 1933 to 1944 and of the journal Die Antike , which was aimed at a broader public , from 1937 to 1944 . In 1941 he returned to the University of Berlin , where he took up the chair of classical philology . From 1942 , as a member of the interdisciplinary Mittwochsgesellschaft ( Wednesday Society ) , he would have encountered figures active in the resistance to Hitler . In 1942 he was inducted into the Prussian Academy of Sciences . There he held various functions until 1950 : he was a member of the Institute for Greek and Roman Antiquity and directed the Polybios-Lexicon , the Inscriptiones Graecae , and the Corpus Medicorum Graecorum . He was also a member of the commission for German and of the commission for the history of late antique religion , and founder and editor of the Goethe Dictionary . From 1950 to 1972 he taught at the University of Tübingen , from which he officially retired in 1968 . He is buried in the Bergfriedhof in Tübingen . The Egyptologist Dorothea Arnold is his daughter . Scholarship . Schadewaldt is regarded as one of the most important twentieth-century German classical philologists as well as one of the most effective communicators of ancient Greek literature . Schadewaldts published works cover all genres of ancient Greek poetry : epic , lyric , and drama as well as philosophy and historiography . His work on Homer marks a high point . In addition to countless separate publications , his analyses in all these areas are collected in his six volumes of Tübingen Lectures , delivered between 1950 and 1972 . Schadewaldts influence is also felt in the form of his students , among whom are the early representatives of the Tübingen school of Platonic studies . This internationally recognized approach to Platonic interpretation was founded by Schadewaldts students Hans Joachim Krämer and Konrad Gaiser , and subsequently advanced by Gaisers successor Thomas A . Szlezák . Schadewaldts students also include Wolfgang Kullmann and Hellmut Flashar , who studied with him in Berlin , and the ancient historian Alexander Demandt . Translations . Schadewaldt is known to a broader audience as translator of Homers Iliad and Odyssey , which along with the renderings of Johann Heinrich Voss are regarded as the best German versions of the two epics . Unlike Voss , Schadewaldt opted not to employ the hexameter in his versions . He translated the Odyssey ( 1957 ) in prose ; his posthumously published version of the Iliad ( 1975 ) employs free verse . In addition to Homer , Schadewaldts translations include tragedies by Aeschylus and Sophocles , as well as the Carmina Burana . Publications . Monographs and Collections . - Monolog und Selbstgeschpräch ( 1926 ) - Iliasstudien ( 1938 ; 2d ed . 1943 ; 3d ed . 1966 ) - Die Heimkehr des Odysseus ( 1946 ) - Legende von Homer dem fahrenden Sänger ( 1942 , 1959 ) - Sophokles und das Leid ( 1948 ) - Sappho . Welt und Dichtung . Dasein in der Liebe ( 1950 ) - Griechische Sternsagen ( 1956 ) - Hellas und Hesperien . Gesammelte Schriften zur Antike und zur neueren Literatur ( 1960 ) - Goethe-Studien . Natur und Altertum ( 1963 ) - Tübinger Vorlesungen . Vol . 1 : Die Anfänge der Philosophie bei den Griechen , ed . by Ingeborg Schudoma , Frankfurt am Main , Suhrkamp , 1978 - Tübinger Vorlesungen . Vol . 2 : Die Anfänge der Geschichtsschreibung bei den Griechen , ed . by Ingeborg Schudoma , Frankfurt am Main , Suhrkamp , 1982 - Tübinger Vorlesungen . Vol . 3 : Die frühgriechische Lyrik , ed . by Ingeborg Schudoma , Frankfurt am Main , Suhrkamp , 1989 - Tübinger Vorlesungen . Vol . 4 : Die griechische Tragödie , ed by Ingeborg Schudoma , Frankfurt am Main , Suhrkamp , 1991 Translations . - Aristophanes : Die Frösche . Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1971 ( Insel-Bücherei Nr . 962 ) - Aristophanes : Lysistrata . Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1972 ( Insel-Bücherei Nr . 967 ) - Carmina Burana , 1953 - Homer : Odyssee , Hamburg , Rowohlt , 1958 - Homer : Ilias , Suhrkamp , Frankfurt am Main 1975 - Sophokles : Aias , Frankfurt am Main , Insel , 1993 - Sophokles : Antigone , Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 1974 - Sophokles : Elektra , Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig 1994 - Sophokles : Die Frauen von Trachis , Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig 2000 - Sophokles : Ödipus auf Kolonos , Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig 1996 - Sophokles : Philoktet , Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig 1999 - Sternsagen . Die Mythologie der Sternbilder , Insel Verlag , Frankfurt am Main und Leipzig 2002 Honors and awards . - 1934 : Member of the Leipzig Academy of Sciences - 1934 : Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina - 1942 : Member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences - 1946 German Academy of Sciences at Berlin - 1958 : Member of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences - 1962 : Pour le Mérite for Sciences and Arts - 1963 : Reuchlin Prize - 1964 : Grand Merit Cross with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany - 1965 : Translation Prize of the German Academy for Language and Poetry - 1972 : Austrian Decoration for Science and Art