Friedrich Samuel Schmidt

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Friedrich Samuel Schmidt (born January 27, 1737 in Bern , † March 11, 1796 in Frankfurt am Main ) was a German - Swiss scholar and diplomat as well as Mr. zu Rossan and Holthausen.

origin

His grandfather von Wichtracht was a field preacher and received citizenship in Bern. His father Samuel Schmidt († 1768) was the school director and already worked as an archaeologist. He had built up an important coin collection.

Life

Schmidt was born in Bern in 1737. After studying theology , he devoted himself to archeology and Egyptology . In its founding year 1759, he became a foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences . In 1760 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences . In 1762 he was appointed honorary professor of antiquities in Basel. From 1764 he worked in Karlsruhe as director of the public library and the margravial coin and natural history cabinet. In 1769 Schmidt came to Frankfurt am Main as a diplomat for the Margrave of Baden-Durlach , where he acted as the Margrave's secret legation councilor and resident . In 1783 he was appointed to the Hessen-Casselian secret council and regional envoy and resident of the Upper Rhine region, as well as the Pfalz-Sulzbachian secret council and resident of Frankfurt am Mayn . On September 18, 1790, the Palatinate Bavarian Imperial Vicariate raised him to the status of imperial baron .

Friedrich Samuel Schmidt was married to Sophie Sybille von Syverts.

Fonts

  • Dissertation on une colonie Egyptienne etablie aux Indes. Berne 1759.8.
  • Dissertatio de Zodiaci nostri origine Aegyptiaca. ibid. 1760. 8. Also in Exerpto Italianae et Helveticae litteraturae P.II (1760)
  • Recueil d'antiquites trouvees a Avenches, a Culm et autres Lieux de la Suiffe. ibid. eod. 4th Francf. 1771.4
  • Theses antiquariae. Basil. 1763.4.
  • Memoires on the Oolithes. Berne 1764.4. Also in Actis Helvet. Vol.Vp97-119 (1762)
  • Opuscula, quibus res antiquae, praecipue Aegyptiacae, explanantur. Carolsruh. 1765.8
  • Dissertatio de sacerdotibus et sacrificiis Aegyptiorum. Tubing. 1768.8.
  • Sur le Pretres Egyptiens ; in Memoires de l'Acad. of the Inscriptt. 1764.
  • De plantis solaribus Aegyptiis sacris ; in Actis Societ. lat. Badensis T. II. p. 81 sqq. (1770). Also in Exerpto totius Italiae et Helvetiae litteraturae P.III.
  • Observatio de Aegyptiorum circa Capras religione; de Orphei et Amphionis nominibus Aegyptiis; Epistola de sua ad oppidum Culm expeditione ; in Estratto della letteratura Europea P.IV.
  • Lettera sul varie antichitta novellemente scoperte ; in Actis Helveticis TV
  • Lettre a Mr. d'Annone, Doct. et Profess. a basle ; in Actis Helvet. Vol.IV.p.167 sqq (1760).
  • Sur la Colonie Egyptienne de Sais a Athenes ; in Archaeologia or Mischellaeneous Tracts TI (Lond. 1770.gr.4.). - De Hercule Ogmio apud Lucianum ; ibid.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Holger Krahnke: The members of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen 1751-2001 (= Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Philological-Historical Class. Volume 3, Vol. 246 = Treatises of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, Mathematical-Physical Class. Episode 3, vol. 50). Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-525-82516-1 , p. 214.
personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Friedrich Samuel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Swiss scholar and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH January 27, 1737
PLACE OF BIRTH Bern
DATE OF DEATH March 11, 1796
Place of death Frankfurt am Main