Friedrich Wilhelm Valentin Schmidt
Friedrich Wilhelm Valentin Schmidt (born September 16, 1787 in Berlin ; † October 12, 1831 ibid) was a German librarian, Anglicist, Romanist and comparativeist .
life and work
Schmidt was the son of Valentin Heinrich Schmidt (1756-1838), director of the Köllnisches Gymnasium in Berlin. He studied theology from 1806 to 1809 at the University of Halle . Then he was a high school teacher in Berlin. In 1819 he completed his habilitation at the University of Berlin with a thesis on the separation of the churches from England. Play by Don Pedro Calderon de la Barca. Overview of the content, with judgmental hints about aids, editions, translations, imitations, litterators, language, chronological order and sources of the works of Calderon (Berlin 1819) and was there from 1821 extraordinary professor of literary history, furthermore from 1822 director of the royal library.
Valentin Schmidt was the father of Leopold Schmidt .
Other works
- (Translator from Latin) Benedikt von Spinoza's Ethik along with the letters relating to the subject of ethics , Berlin 1812
- (Ed.) The fairy tales of Straparola , Berlin 1817
- Contributions to the history of romantic poetry , Berlin 1818
- (Ed.) Collection of French scriptures dating back to the nineteenth to the thirteenth centuries . In addition to a dictionary for the lost old words; especially in relation to the connection between the modern languages and with Latin, their mother tongue. For learned lessons, Berlin 1818
- (Translator from English) Thomas Dekker , Fortunatus and his sons. A magical tragedy performed in front of Queen Elisabeth in 1600; with an appendix of similar fairy tales , Berlin 1819
- (Ed.) Roland's adventures in a hundred romantic pictures . Adapted from the Italian by Count Matteo Maria Boiardo, edited by Benedigte Naubert , 3 vol., Berlin 1819–1820
- About the Italian hero poems from the saga of Charlemagne , Berlin / Leipzig 1820 (French: Les romans en prose des cycles de la Table ronde et de Charlemagne , St. Omer 1845)
- Via Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia , Berlin 1823 (Gymnasium zum Grau Kloster, school program)
- Ballads and romances by the German poets Bürger, Stollberg and Schiller. Explained and traced back to its sources , Berlin 1827
- (Ed.) Petri Alfonsi Disciplina clericalis. A contribution to the history of romantic literature , Berlin 1827
- Calderon's plays presented and explained , put together from printed and unprinted papers of the author, supplemented and edited. by Leopold Schmidt , Elberfeld 1857, Vaduz 1988
literature
- Alexander M. Kalkhoff, Romance Philology in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries , Tübingen 2010
- Max von Waldberg: Schmidt, Valentin . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 14-16.
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| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schmidt, Friedrich Wilhelm Valentin |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Valentin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German librarian, English studies, Romance studies and comparative studies |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 16, 1787 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1831 |
| Place of death | Berlin |