his wife died in 1935 as well, and on 14 november of that year he was officially classified as jewish, upon which many colleagues and acquaintances distanced themselves from him. nevertheless, he continued to write biographical articles for pauly-wissowa, and they continued to accept them, in spite of a law forbidding jews to publish. in 1938 a new law compelled him to adopt a jewish middle name, and he became officially known as "the jew friedrich israel münzer". in a letter of 12 december 1938 to ronald syme, he wrote that the changed situation "deeply depressed" him, but that he still considered himself better off than many others.