taught for one year at Wesleyan University
Martin Ostwald was an employee for whom from 1950 to 1951?
Martin Ostwald Martin Ostwald ( January 15 , 1922 – April 10 , 2010 ) was a German-American classical scholar , who taught until 1992 at Swarthmore College and the University of Pennsylvania . His main field of study was the political structures of Ancient Greece . Life . Born the elder son of a German-Jewish lawyer , Ostwald was raised in Dortmund , where he attended the Municipal Gymnasium ( Städtliches Gymnasium ) . He had always intended to become a classical scholar , but when this possibility was removed by the passage of the Nuremberg Laws of 1935 , which closed the German universities to Jews , he decided instead to pursue his interests in teaching and scholarship by becoming a rabbi . But during the Reichskristallnacht on November 9 , 1938 , Ostwald was arrested together with his father and his younger brother , Ernst . Forced to leave his parents behind in Germany , Ostwald and his brother were able to emigrate to England via the Netherlands on a Kindertransport . In England , however , Ostwald and other German refugees were , in the wake of the British defeat at Dunkirk , transferred to a concentration camp in Canada . Following his release , Ostwald enrolled at the University of Toronto , where he was able to resume his original interest in classical studies . After graduation in 1946 he continued his studies in the ( at that time still quite new ) Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago , where he wrote an M.A . thesis on the treatment of the Orestes myth by Aeschylus , Sophocles , and Euripides . In 1949 he became a doctoral student under fellow German immigrant Kurt von Fritz at Columbia University in New York City . In 1951 he published his first scholarly article on the Prytaneion Decree ( IG 1 131 ) . The following year Ostwald received his Ph.D . after completing his dissertation on the Athenian constitution . After receiving his Ph.D . Ostwald taught for one year at Wesleyan University . He then returned to Columbia and taught there until 1958 , when he joined the Classics Department at Swarthmore College . A few years later he transferred one-third of his teaching to the graduate programs in Classical Studies and Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania , an arrangement made possible by a special agreement between the two institutions . Ostwald continued to teach undergraduates at Swarthmore and graduate students at Penn until his retirement in 1992 . In addition to these primary appointments , Ostwald taught as visiting professor at Princeton University , the University of California at Berkeley , Balliol College , Oxford , at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and , for many years , at Tel Aviv University . Among Ostwalds many publications , some of the most notable include a translation of Aristotles Nicomachean Ethics ; a handbook on the meters of Greek and Roman poetry , on which he collaborated with Thomas G . Rosenmeyer and James Halporn. ) and several books on ancient Greek constitutional history : Nomos and the Beginnings of the Athenian Democracy ; Autonomia : Its Genesis and Early History ; and his magnum opus , From Popular Sovereignty to the Sovereignty of the Law , for which Ostwald received the Goodwin Award of Merit from the American Philological Association in 1990 . A selection of Ostwalds more important papers was published under the title Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture ( Philadelphia 2009 ) . Ostwald was elected President of the American Philological Association in 1987 . In 1991 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , and in 1993 he was inducted into the American Philosophical Society . Ostwald was awarded honorary doctorates by the University of Fribourg ( Switzerland ) in 1995 , and by the University of Dortmund , Germany , in 2001 . Ostwald died of heart failure on April 10 , 2010 .