Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin

Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (June 6, 1810 - January 11, 1856), was a German classical scholar.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

He was born at Helmstedt. In 1833 he became a teacher at the Brunswick gymnasium. In 1837 he was appointed extraordinary, and in 1842 ordinary, professor of classical languages and literature at the University of G?ttingen, where he died.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

Schneidewin's work on Sophocles and the Greek lyric poets is of permanent value. His most important publications are:

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

• Ibyci Rhegini reliquiae (1833), severely criticized by G Hermann; 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)
• Sophocles (1849-1854, revised after his death by A Nauck).

He also edited the fragments of the speeches of Hypereides on behalf of Euxenippus and Lycophron (already published by Churchill Babington from a papyrus discovered in Thebes, Egypt, in 1847) and a Latin poem on rhetorical 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 M?ller.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~

June 6: June 6 is the 157th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (158th in leap years), with 208 days remaining....

1810: 1810 was a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar)....

January 11: January 11 is the 11th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. There are 354 days remaining (355 in leap years)....

Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin related Images and Photos (experimental)

Friedrich Wilhelm IV	Wilhelm Friedrich Bach 1782	Friedrich Wilhelm Marpurg German Musician	Friedrich Wilhelm August Froebel German Educator
Prussian King Friedrich Wilhelm Ii	Friedrich Wilhelm the Great Elector of Brandenburg	Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Engraved by F.W Bollinger C.1825	Friedrich Wilhelm IV King of Prussia Depicted Here as Crown Prince
Portrait of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel 1825	Luise Henriette of Brandenburg Wife of Friedrich Wilhelm	Friedrich Smetana	Friedrich Schiller