Johannes Schmidt (epigraphist)
Johannes Wilhelm Theodor Schmidt (born April 24, 1850 in Schmiedeberg ; † January 6, 1894 in Königsberg (Prussia) ) was a German classical philologist and epigraphist .
Life
The son of the pastor and superintendent August Schmidt studied from 1867 classical philology and theology at the universities of Bonn (among others with Otto Jahn ) and Halle . In the Franco-Prussian War of 1870/71 he served as a volunteer and was seriously injured. After his recovery he passed the theological exam and spent a few months in Berlin for private studies. Returning to Halle, he received his doctorate in 1874 with the dissertation De Herodotea quae fertur vita Homeri ("About the Herodotus ascribed Homer- Vita"). In the following years Schmidt worked as a lecturer in Halle, where he completed his habilitation in 1878 with the text Commentationis de seviris Augustalibus scriptae particula and was appointed private lecturer. In 1883, shortly after his appointment as associate professor, he followed a call to the University of Giessen as a full professor of classical philology to succeed Wilhelm Clemm (1843-1883). In 1892 he took over the chair of Alfred Schöne (1836–1918) in Königsberg . His time there was short-lived: Schmidt fell ill with stomach cancer and had to stop teaching. His chair was represented by Alfred Gercke from 1893 to 1895 . Schmidt died on January 6, 1894 at the age of 43.
After Gustav Wilmanns ' death (1878), Schmidt prepared the supplements to the volume of the North African inscriptions of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum as an employee of Theodor Mommsen , for which he traveled to Algiers and Tunis in the winter of 1882/83. After his death, Hermann Dessau took on this task together with the French epigraphist René Cagnat . Schmidt also provided more than a hundred articles - mostly on the geography and topography of Roman North Africa - for the first volumes of the Realencyclopadie of Classical Antiquity . In addition, in 1881 he discovered the oldest Romance language monument in the Codex Vaticanus Reginensis Latinus 1462 , the Alba bilingue, a day song .
Fonts
- De Herodotea quae fertur vita Homeri , Phil. Diss. Halle 1874 - with Latin vita [expanded version: Halle 1876 (= Dissertationes philologicae Halenses , vol. 2,3, pp. 97-219)].
- Leibnitz and Baumgarten. A contribution to the history of German aesthetics , Halle 1875.
- Commentationis de seviris Augustalibus scriptae particula , Halle 1878 ( Habilschrift ; in an expanded version as De Seviris Augustalibus , Halle 1878 published in the series Dissertationes philologicae Halenses , Vol. 5, Halle 1883)
- The oldest Alba . In: Journal for German Philology 12, 1881, pp. 333–341.
- Report to the Royal Academy of Sciences in Berlin on the epigraphic trip to Algiers and Tunis carried out on its behalf in the winter of 1882/83 . In: Meeting reports of the Royal Prussian Academy of Sciences in Berlin , 1883, 1, pp. 607–616. (Digitized academy publications)
- Inscriptiones Africae Latinae. Supplementi pars I: Inscriptiones Africae proconsularis . Edid. René Cagnat, I. Schmidt, Berlin 1891 (impr. Iter. 1966).
- Inscriptiones Africae Latinae. Supplementi pars II: Inscriptiones provinciae Numidiae . Edid. R. Cagnat, I. Schmidt. Commentariis instruxerunt I. Schmidt, Hermann Dessau, Berlin 1894 (impr. Iter. 1969).
- Inscriptiones Africae Latinae. Supplementi pars III: Inscriptiones Mauretaniae. Miliaria et instrumentum domesticum . Edid. I. Schmidt, R. Cagnat, H. Dessau, Berlin 1904 (impr. Iter. 1969).
literature
- Obituary in: CIL VIII, Supplement 2 (1894)
- Johannes Irmscher : Genesi del CIL VIII. Inscriptiones Africae Latinae . In: Attilio Mastino (ed.): L 'Africa Romana. Atti del IV convegno di studio Sassari, December 12-14, 1986 , Sassari 1988, pp. 323-329.
- Hans Prutz : The Royal Albertus University of Königsberg i. Pr. In the nineteenth century , Königsberg 1894, p. 319.
- John Scheid / Eckhard Wirbelauer : La correspondance entre Georg Wissowa et Theodor Mommsen (1883-1901) . In: Corinne Bonnet u. Véronique Krings (ed.): S'écrire et écrire sur l'Antiquité. L'apport des correspondances à l'histoire des travaux scientifique , Grenoble 2008, pp. 155–212, here p. 196f, note 117.
- Julius Nicolaus Weisfert: Biographical-literary lexicon for the capital and royal seat of Königsberg and East Prussia , Königsberg 1898 (ND Hildesheim 1975), p. 206.
Web links
- Personnel sheet from Johannes Schmidt in the personnel file of the BIL expert body in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)
Chair I (since 1962 focus on Greek studies ): Friedrich Karl Rumpf (1809–1823) | Friedrich Gotthilf Osann (1825–1858) | Ludwig Lange (1859–1871) | Eduard Lübbert (1871–1874) | Adolf Philippi (1874-1893) | Eduard Schwartz (1893–1897) | Albrecht Dieterich (1897–1903) | Erich Bethe (1903–1906) | Alfred Körte (1906–1913) | Rudolf Herzog (1913–1936) | Albrecht von Blumenthal (1940–1945) | Gerhard Müller (1962–1976) | Egert Pöhlmann (1976–1980) | Manfred Landfester (1980–2002) | Peter von Möllendorff (since 2003)
Chair II (since 1962 focus on Latin studies ): Heinrich Friedrich Pfannkuche (1803–1832) | Wilhelm Clemm (1874-1883) | Johannes Schmidt (1883-1892) | Richard Reitzenstein (1892-1893) | Gotthold Gundermann (1893–1902) | Richard Wünsch (1902–1907) | Otto Immisch (1907–1913) | Karl Kalbfleisch (1913–1934) | Wilhelm Süß (1934–1940) | Andreas Thierfelder (1941–1943) | Vinzenz Buchheit (1962–1989) | Jochem Küppers (1990-1997) | Helmut Krasser (since 1999)
First chair: Samuel Gottlieb Wald (1786–1806) | Carl Erfurdt (1810–1813) | Christian August Lobeck (1814–1857) | Ludwig Friedländer (1858–1892) | Ludwig Jeep (1893-1910)
Second chair: Karl Lehrs (1845–1878) | Arthur Ludwich (1878-1912) | Ludwig Deubner (1912–1917) | Ludolf Malten (1919 / 1920–1922) | Johannes Mewaldt (1923–1927) | Richard Harder (1927–1930) | Paul Maas (1930–1934) | Walter F. Otto (1934–1945)
Third chair: Henri Jordan (1867–1886) | Alfred Schöne (1887–1892) | Johannes Schmidt (1892-1894) | August Brinkmann (1896 / 1900–1902) | Richard Heinze (1903-1906) | Richard Wünsch (1907–1913) | Otto Immisch (1913–1914) | Karl Meister (1916–1921) | Ernst Bickel (1921–1928) | Wolfgang Schadewaldt (1928–1929) | Harald Fuchs (1929–1932) | Willy Theiler (1932–1944) | Werner Hartke (1944–1945)
Extraordinariat: Ludwig Jeep (1886–1893) | August Brinkmann (1896–1900) | Hermann Schöne (1903–1906) | Ludwig Deubner (1906–1912) | Christian Jensen (1912–1913) | Hermann Mutschmann (1913–1918) | Ludolf Malten (1919–1920)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Schmidt, Johannes |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Johannes Wilhelm Theodor |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and epigraphist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 24, 1850 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Schmiedeberg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 6, 1894 |
| Place of death | Königsberg (Prussia) |