Magdalena Schmidt (philologist)
Magdalena Bertha Schmidt (born November 10, 1885 in Lößnitz (Erzgebirge) ; † October 12, 1966 in Dresden-Mitte ) was a German classical philologist and high school teacher. Her research focus was Augustan poetry.
Life
Magdalena Schmidt studied at the University of Leipzig Classical Philology and was in 1922 when Richard Heinze with a dissertation on the second book of the Tristia Dr. phil. PhD . She then worked as a teacher at a Dresden grammar school and continued her academic work. Her monograph The Composition of Vergils Georgica grew out of a lecture on Vergils Georgica in 1923 in the academic reading group of Franz Poland , in which she also dealt with the compositional principles of Catullus , Horace and the poets of the Appendix Vergiliana in the appendices .
Schmidt also published a bilingual edition of the poem Culex (1959) as well as essays in scientific journals and articles in Paulys Realenzyklopädie der classical antiquity (RE).
Fonts
- De Ovidii Tristium libro II . Leipzig 1922 (dissertation)
- The composition of Virgil's Georgica . Paderborn 1930. Reprint New York / London 1968
- Virgil: The mosquito. Latin and German . Berlin / Darmstadt 1959
- Arrangement art in the catalepton . In: Mnemosyne . Volume 16 (1963), pp. 142-156
Individual evidence
- ^ Message from the Dresden City Archives , November 26, 2010
- ↑ Engelbert Drerup : Foreword by the editor . In: Magdalena Schmidt: The composition of Virgil's Georgica . Paderborn 1930, p. 7.
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| SURNAME | Schmidt, Magdalena |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Schmidt, Magdalena Bertha (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German classical philologist and high school teacher |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 10, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Loessnitz (Ore Mountains) |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 12, 1966 |
| Place of death | Dresden center |