Bernhard Schmidt (philologist)
Bernhard Schmidt (born January 30, 1837 in Jena , † January 18, 1917 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German classical philologist .
Life
Bernhard Schmidt was born as the son of the tax officer Bernhard Schmidt († 1851) and his wife Johanna geb. Sieglitz born. He attended Karl Volkmar Stoy's boys' college , from 1851 the high school Casimirianum in Coburg and from 1854 the high school in Weimar, where he was influenced by the headmaster Hermann Sauppe . Schmidt then studied classical philology from 1856 at the universities of Jena , Berlin and Bonn . During his studies in Jena in 1856 he became a member of the Arminia fraternity in the castle cellar. An eye disease forced him to take a break of several months in 1859, during which he stayed at his parents' house in Jena. In 1860 he was in Berlin with a thesis De emendandarum Senecae tragoediarum rationibus prosodiacis et metricis doctorate .
After a long period of study in Greece , Schmidt completed his habilitation in Jena in 1865 with the work Observationes criticae in Senecae tragoedias . In 1872 he was appointed full professor at the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg , where he worked until his retirement (1911).
His research interests included Roman tragedy and Greek folk literature. His best-known books include The Folk Life of Modern Greece and Hellenic Antiquity (Leipzig 1871) and the anthology Greek fairy tales, sagas and folk songs (Leipzig 1877. Reprinted from Hildesheim / New York 1978).
literature
- Academic communications. Organ for the entire interests of the student body at the Albert Ludwigs University in Freiburg i. Br. (January 23, 1917), p. 29f.
- Heidrun Brückner, Agnes Stache-Weiske, Gabriele Zeller: Otto Böhtlingk to Rudolf Roth: Letters to the Petersburg Dictionary 1852–1885 , Wiesbaden 2007. p. 753.
Individual evidence
- ^ Hugo Böttger (ed.): Directory of the old fraternity members according to the status of the winter semester 1911/12. Berlin 1912, p. 178.
Web links
- Literature by Bernhard Schmidt in the catalog of the German National Library
First ordinariate: Karl Zell (1821–1836) | Joseph Anselm Feuerbach (1836–1851) | Theodor Bergk (1852–1857) | Johannes Vahlen (1858) | Franz Bücheler (1858–1866) | Wilhelm Brambach (1866–1872) | Otto Keller (1872–1875) | Otto Hense (1876–1909) | Eduard Schwartz (1909–1913) | Otto Immisch (1914–1930) | Eduard Fraenkel (1931–1933) | Hans Oppermann (1935–1941) | Karl Büchner (1943–1976) | Eckard Lefèvre (1977-2003) | Therese Fuhrer (2004–2008) | Wolfgang Kofler (2009–2012) | Stefan Tilg (since 2014)
Second full professorship: Anton Baumstark (1836–1872) | Bernhard Schmidt (1872–1911) | Richard Reitzenstein (1911–1914) | Alfred Körte (1914–1917) | Ludwig Deubner (1917–1927) | Rudolf Pfeiffer (1927–1929) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1929–1934) | Hans Bogner (1936–1941) | Hermann Gundert (1944–1974) | Wolfgang Kullmann (1975–1996) | Bernhard Zimmermann (since 1997)
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Bernhard |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 30, 1837 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Jena |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 18, 1917 |
| Place of death | Freiburg in Breisgau |