Born in Kempen, then in Germany, he was a Greek
and Latin scholar and until age 50 his main occupation was compiling
dictionaries and aids to the study of the ancient classics. From 1855 to 1870 he
directed the Jewish high school in Gleiwitz (now Gliwice, in Poland).
Freund was the author of many educational pamphlets and edited the periodical
Zur Judenfrage in Deutschland
(1843-44).
Bibliography
FREUND, Wilhelm. Triennium
philologicum, oder Grundzuege der philologischen wissenschaften, fuer juenger
der philologie zur wiederholung und selbstpruefung. 2. verb. aufl. Leipzig:
W. Violet, 1880-85 [v. 1, 1906]
FREUND, Wilhelm. Wie studirt man
philologie? Eine hodegetik fuer juenger dieser wissenschaft, 5. verb. und
verm. aufl. Pp. 170. Leipzig: W. Violet, 1885.
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