Georg Friedrich Schömann

Georg Friedrich Schömann (1832)

Georg Friedrich Schömann (born June 28, 1793 in Stralsund , † March 25, 1879 in Greifswald ) was a German classical philologist.

Life

Schömann came as the eldest son of the imperial lawyer and notary Jakob Georg Friedrich Schömann and his wife Mariana Regina Friderica nee. To the world. After his parents separated, he was accepted by his grandfather in Anklam, where he attended grammar school in 1809 to move to the Royal University of Greifswald . He studied here for the first and last semester, three in between at the University of Jena . He was a member of the Corps Saxonia Jena I (1810) and the Corps Pomerania Greifswald (1812). After completing his studies, he initially hired himself as a private tutor . He became vice principal at the Gymnasium Anklam (1813) and onFriedrich-Ludwig-Jahn-Gymnasium Greifswald (1814), prorector there in 1818. The University of Greifswald appointed him in 1827 as professor for ancient literature and rhetoric. He was elected rector several times (most recently in 1856), but since 1852 he has also headed the scientific examination committee for teaching.

Schömann's main interest was the state constitution and religion in ancient Greece . His first work in the field was De comitiis Atheniensium (1819), the first independent study of the form of political life in Athens , and a treatise De sortitione judicum apud Athenienses (1820). Schömann wrote Der Attische Process (1824) in connection with MHE Meyer .

The question of the religious institutions of the Greeks, to which, in Schömann's view, they devoted a considerable part of their public life, soon drew his attention, and he took the position that everything truly religious was similar to Christianity and that the great thinkers of the Greeks intuitively produced Christian dogmatic ideas. From this point of view he published Hesiod's Theogony (1868) with a mainly mythological commentary, and Cicero's De natura deorum (1850, 4th edition 1876); he translated Aeschylus ' Der Fesselte Prometheus and wrote an Unchained Prometheus (1844), in which Prometheus is made to recognize the greatness of his offense and is pardoned by Zeus . One of his contributions to grammatical subjects should be mentioned The Doctrine of the Speech Parts According to the Ancients (1862), an introduction to the elements of grammar. He shows his versatility in Opuscula academica (4 volumes, 1856–1871).

Works

Editions of Isaios (1831) and Plutarchs Agis and Cleomenes (1839, essential for Attic inheritance law and the history of the Spartan constitution)
Antiquitates juris publici Graecorum (1838)
A critical examination of George Grote's account of the Athenian Constitution (1854) from a conservative perspective
Greek Antiquities (1855-1859), on the development of the Greek states, with a detailed report on the constitutions of Sparta, Crete and Athens, the cults and international relations of the Greek tribes.

Honors

Corresponding member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences (1824)
Red Eagle Order 3rd Class (1842)
Corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen (1850)
Member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences (1855)
Pour le Mérite (1864)

literature

Franz Susemihl in Conrad Bursian 's Biographical Yearbook for Classical Studies (1879)
Conrad Bursian: History of Classical Philology in Germany (1883)
John Edwin Sandys : History of Classical Scholarship , III (1908), 165.
Franz Egermann : Georg Friedrich Schömann. In: Pommersche Lebensbilder I. Saunier, Stettin 1934, pp. 88–93.
August Baumeister: Schömann, Georg Friedrich . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 32, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1891, pp. 235-237.

Web links

Literature by and about Georg Friedrich Schömann in the catalog of the German National Library
Works by and about Georg Friedrich Schömann in the German Digital Library

Individual evidence

↑ Kösener corps lists 1910, 127/86
↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 56/33
^ Members of the previous academies. Georg Friedrich Schömann. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 13, 2015 .
↑ EG Gersdorf (Ed.): Leipziger Repertorium der Deutschen und Fremd Literatur. Vol. 3, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1843, p. 45 ( digitized version ).
↑ 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. 216.
↑ Schömann (orden-pourlemerite.de)

predecessor	Office	successor

Johann Christian Friedrich Finelius	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1841	Philipp Magnus Seifert
Karl August Traugott Vogt	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1847	Wilhelm Baum
Karl August Traugott Vogt	Rector of the University of Greifswald 1856	Heinrich Adolf von Bardeleben

personal data
SURNAME	Schömann, Georg Friedrich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 28, 1793
PLACE OF BIRTH	Stralsund
DATE OF DEATH	March 25, 1879
Place of death	Greifswald

[1] Kösener corps lists 1910, 127/86

[2] Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 56/33

[3] Members of the previous academies. Georg Friedrich Schömann. Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences , accessed on June 13, 2015 .

[4] EG Gersdorf (Ed.): Leipziger Repertorium der Deutschen und Fremd Literatur. Vol. 3, Brockhaus, Leipzig 1843, p. 45 ( digitized version ).

[5] 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. 216.

[6] Schömann (orden-pourlemerite.de)