Johannes Schneider (Philologist)

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Johannes Schneider (born March 26, 1910 in Dresden , † July 29, 2006 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German Middle-Latin philologist . For many years he was editor of the " Middle Latin Dictionary " in Berlin and representative of the subject Middle Latin Philology in the GDR.

After graduating from the Wettiner Gymnasium in Dresden and studying in Leipzig and Freiburg i. He received his doctorate in 1935 under Friedrich Klingner with a thesis on the inserted subordinate clauses in Plautus (" De enuntiatis secundariis interpositis quaestiones Plautinae ", Dresden 1937). In 1935 he began a pedagogical career at the Kreuzschule in Dresden, which ended in 1939 when he was called up for military service and from 1941 when he was transferred to Greece and Yugoslavia.

After a Yugoslav prisoner-of-war until 1947 and a phase of non-professional activities, he got a job at the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin in 1951 , where he headed the Berlin office of the "Middle Latin Dictionary" until his retirement in 1975 and made a significant contribution through his lexicographical and editorial work was due to the fact that the first 17 deliveries of this lexicon could appear annually from 1959 on.

In addition, he devoted himself mainly to conceptual and literary history studies. Particularly noteworthy is his work "The German Bailiwick and its influence on medieval Latin", in which he traced the changes in Latin terms in Roman law against the background of church, Germanic and feudal legal developments. In “Die Vita Heinrici IV. And Sallust. Studies on style and imitation in Medieval Latin prose ”, through the text analysis of a Middle Latin emperor's biography, he gained new insights into the immanent phenomenon of the imitation of ancient Latin authors in Middle Latin literature.

literature

  • Teja Erb: In memoriam Johannes Schneider (1910-2006). In: Middle Latin Yearbook . Volume 42, 2007, pp. 253-256.
  • Bibliography Johannes Schneider. In: Philologus . Volume 115, 1971, pp. 7-10.

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personal data
SURNAME Schneider, Johannes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Middle Latin philologist
DATE OF BIRTH March 26, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Dresden
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2006
Place of death Freiburg in Breisgau