Friedrich Neumann was born
Kassel, Germany on 2 March 1889. From 1907 to 1913, Neumann studied
classical philology,
German literature and
philosophy at the universities of
Marburg,
Munich and
Göttingen. He received his
Ph.D. at Göttingen in 1914. Neumann volunteered for service in the
German Army during
World War I, and served on the
Western Front. Neumann completed his
habilitation in philology at Göttingen in 1921. He subsequently served as a professor at the
University of Leipzig. Since 1927, Neumann was Professor of German Philology at the University of Göttingen. Among his students were , and
Gottfried Höfer. At Göttingen, Neumann served as
Rector from 1933 to 1938, and Vice Rector from 1938 to 1945. He was a member of the
Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities from 1943 to 1945. A member of the
Nazi Party, Neumann was fired from the University of Göttingen and expelled from the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in 1945. He was subsequently rehabilitated, and retired from the University with a pension in 1954. Neumann was awarded the
Brothers Grimm Prize of the University of Marburg in 1971. He died in Göttingen on 12 December 1978. ==See also==