Bernhard Schmidt (philologist)

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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).

Grave of Prof. Bernhard Schmidt, Freiburg main cemetery

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

  1. ^ 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

Wikisource: Bernhard Schmidt  - Sources and full texts