Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin
Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (6 June 1810 – 11 January 1856), was a German classical scholar.
Biography
He was born on 6 June 1810 at Helmstedt. In 1833, he became a teacher at the Braunschweig gymnasium. In 1837 he was appointed an associate professor, and in 1842, a full professor of classical languages and literature at the University of Göttingen where he died on 11 January 1856.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Works
Schneidewin's work on Sophocles and the Greek lyric poets is of permanent value.Template:Sfn His most important publications are:Template:Sfn
- Ibyci Rhegini carminum reliquiae (1833), severely criticized by G. Hermann.Template:Sfn Template:Catalog lookup link.
- Simonidis Cei carminum reliquiae (1835); edition of Simonides of Ceos. Template:Catalog lookup link. Internet Archive.
- Delectus poesis Graecorum elegiacae, iambicae, melicae (1838-39), in which the fragments of the lyric poets were for the first time published in a convenient form. Template:Catalog lookup link.
- Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum: Zenobius, Diogenianus, Plutarchus and Gregorius Cyprius, 1839–51, with E. von Leutsch), Göttingen, Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht. Template:Catalog lookup link. Vol. 1: Internet Archive; Vol. 2: Internet Archive.
- Sophocles (1849-1854, revised after his death by A. Nauck). Revised 1865 edition: Internet Archive.
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 K. O. Müller.Template:SfnTemplate:Sfn
Notes
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References
Attribution:
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- E. von Leutsch in Philologus, x.
- M. Lechner, Zur Erinnerung an K. F. Hermann, F. W. Schneidewin (1864)
Further reading
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