Friedrich GG Schmidt
Friedrich Georg Gottlob Schmidt (* 1868 in Unterermagerbein in Nördlinger Ries , † 1945 in Eugene , Oregon ) was a German-American linguist and literary scholar.
Schmidt attended Latin school in Nördlingen and studied at Erlangen University before emigrating to the United States in 1890 and receiving his doctorate from Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore . During his studies in 1889 he became a member of the Christian student union Uttenruthia . In 1896 he received a professorship for the German language at Cornell College in Mount Vernon / Iowa. From 1897 he held the chair of modern languages at the University of Oregon in Eugene.
Schmidt wrote numerous scientific papers on the Rieser dialect, edited medieval manuscripts from the princely library of Oettingen-Wallerstein in Maihingen and the work of the Nördlingen poet Melchior Meyr . He translated Goethe's Faust into English for a bilingual edition.
Individual evidence
- ^ Leopold Petri (ed.): Directory of members of the Schwarzburgbund. Fourth edition, Bremerhaven 1908, p. 95, no.2021.
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| SURNAME | Schmidt, Friedrich GG |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Friedrich Georg Gottlob (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American linguist and literary researcher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1868 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Mönchsdeggingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1945 |
| Place of death | Eugene , Oregon |