Johannes Schmidt (philologist, 1841)

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Johannes Eusebius Samuel Schmidt (born July 31, 1841 in Berlin-Mitte , † August 16, 1925 in Berlin-Steglitz ) was a German high school teacher .

Life

Johannes ES Schmidt was the eldest son of Eusebius Schmidt , the head of the girls' school in the French Cathedral on the Gendarmenmarkt in Berlin. After graduating from the Kgl. French grammar school in Berlin on March 27, 1861 and studying at Berlin University , he completed his probationary year at the French grammar school in Berlin and in 1866 became a full teacher at the Luisenstadt grammar school in Berlin, from 1866 senior teacher. On March 18, 1866 he was promoted to Dr. phil. PhD . In 1885 Schmidt became a high school professor for the subjects German, Latin, Greek, French, history and general education.

In 1870 Johannes Schmidt married Theodora Sophia Philippi, a great-granddaughter of Charlotte Buff , Goethe's childhood sweetheart, who inspired him to write his novel The Sorrows of Young Werther . Their children together were the sculptor Erich Schmidt-Kestner , the writer, poet and captain of the aviator Hans Schmidt-Kestner , the sculptor and painter Gertrud Schmidt and Elisabeth Schmidt, a violin teacher.

Publications

  • De Epithetis compositis in tragoedia Graeca usurpatis. Dissertation Berlin 1865.
  • Schiller and Rousseau. (= Collection of commonly understood scientific lectures XI. Ser, Issue 256). C. Habel, Berlin 1876.
  • About the French nominal composition. A contribution to the scientific grammar of the French language. Berlin 1872.
  • The French Cathedral School and the French Gymnasium in Berlin . Edited and commented by Rüdiger RE Fock. Publishing house Dr. Kovac, Hamburg 2008, ISBN 978-3-8300-3478-0 .

literature

  • Siegfried Rösch: The Buff family. Insight into more than four hundred years of family history . Verlag Degener & Co., Neustadt an der Aisch 1953, p. 76.

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personal data
SURNAME Schmidt, Johannes
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Schmidt, Johannes Eusebius Samuel; Schmidt, Johannes ES
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher
DATE OF BIRTH July 31, 1841
PLACE OF BIRTH Berlin center
DATE OF DEATH August 16, 1925
Place of death Berlin-Steglitz