Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (June 6, 1810 - January 11, 1856), was a
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classical scholar.
He was born at
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. In 1833 he became a teacher at the
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gymnasium. In 1837 he was appointed extraordinary, and in 1842 ordinary, professor of classical languages and literature at the University of Göttingen, where he died.
Schneidewin's work on
SophoclesSophocles was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides...
and the Greek lyric poets is of permanent value.
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Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (June 6, 1810 - January 11, 1856), was a
GermanGermany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium,...
classical scholar.
He was born at
HelmstedtHelmstedt [ˈhɛlmˌʃtɛt] is a city located at the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt. Helmstedt has 26,000 inhabitants . In former times the city was also called Helmstädt....
. In 1833 he became a teacher at the
BrunswickBraunschweig , known as Brunswiek in Low German, is a city of 245,810 people , located in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located north of the Harz mountains at the farthest navigable point of the Oker river, which connects to the North Sea via the rivers Aller and Weser...
gymnasium. In 1837 he was appointed extraordinary, and in 1842 ordinary, professor of classical languages and literature at the University of Göttingen, where he died.
Schneidewin's work on
SophoclesSophocles was the second of the three ancient Greek tragedians whose work has survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus and earlier than those of Euripides...
and the Greek lyric poets is of permanent value. His most important publications are:
- Ibyci Rhegini reliquiae (1833), severely criticized by G Hermann
Johann Gottfried Jakob Hermann was a German classical scholar and philologist. He was born at Leipzig.Entering the university of his native city at the age of fourteen, Hermann at first studied law, which he soon abandoned for the classics...
; Simonidis Cei reliquiae (1835)
- Delectus poesis Graecorum elegiacae, iambicae, melicae (1838-1839), in which the fragments of the lyric poets were for the first time published in a convenient form
- Paroemiographi graeci (1839, with E von Leutsch
Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch was a German classical philologist born in Frankfurt am Main.He studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen, where he had as instructors Georg Ludolf Dissen, Christoph Wilhelm Mitscherlich and Karl Otfried Müller. It was during this time that he became...
)
- Sophocles (1849-1854, revised after his death by A Nauck
Johann August Nauck was a German classical scholar and critic.Nauck was born at Auerstadt in Prussian Saxony...
).
He also edited the fragments of the speeches of
HypereidesHypereides was a logographer in Ancient Greece. He was one of the ten Attic orators included in the "Alexandrian Canon" compiled by Aristophanes of Byzantium and Aristarchus of Samothrace in the third century BCE....
on behalf of Euxenippus and
LycophronLycophron was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem Alexandra is attributed .-Life and miscellaneous works:...
(already published by
Churchill BabingtonChurchill Babington was an English classical scholar and archaeologist, born at Rothley Temple, in Leicestershire....
from a
papyrusPapyrus is a thick paper-like material produced from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge that was once abundant in the Nile Delta of Egypt....
discovered in
Thebes, EgyptThebes is the Greek name for a city in Ancient Egypt located about 800 km south of the Mediterranean, on the east bank of the river Nile . It was inhabited beginning in around 3200 BC. It was the eponymous capital of Waset, the fourth Upper Egyptian nome...
, in 1847) and a
LatinLatin is an Italic language originally spoken in Latium and Ancient Rome. Through the Roman conquest, Latin spread throughout the Mediterranean and a large part of Europe...
poem on
rhetoricRhetoric is one of the arts of using language as a means to persuade. Along with grammar and logic or dialectic, rhetoric is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. From ancient Greece to the late 19th Century, it was a central part of Western education, filling the need to train public...
al figures by an unknown author (
Incerti auctoris de figuris vel schematibus versus heroici, 1841), found by Jules Quicherat in manuscript in the Paris library. Schneidewin was also the founder of
Philologus (1846), a journal devoted to classical learning, and dedicated to the memory of
KO MüllerKarl Otfried Müller , was a German scholar and Philodorian, or admirer of ancient Sparta, who introduced the modern study of Greek mythology.-Biography:...
.
Publications
- J. E. Sandys
Sir John Edwin Sandys FBA , was a classical scholar.He was born at Leicester on 19 May 1844, a son of the Reverend Timothy Sandys of the Church Missionary Society and Rebecca...
, A History of Classical Scholarship, volume iii (Cambridge, 1908)