Richard Schneider (Philologist)

Richard Schneider (born November 21, 1835 in Manebach , † June 15, 1917 in Duisburg ) was a German classical philologist and grammar school director. He taught in Gotha, Cologne and Elberfeld and directed the Ulrichsgymnasium Norden (1875–1881) and the grammar school in Duisburg (1881–1908). Of his scientific work, the critical complete edition of the writings of the Alexandrian grammarist Apollonios Dyskolos , which he edited together with Gustav Uhlig (1878–1910), deserves special mention .

Life

Richard Schneider was the son of the forester Ludwig Adolf Heinrich Schneider and his wife Adelheid geb. Winter, a forester's daughter. He grew up in Manebach and Dietharz , where his father worked as a forester from 1838.

Richard Schneider attended elementary school in the nearby town of Tambach , then from Easter 1849 to Easter 1854 the Ducal Realgymnasium in Gotha . After graduating, Schneider studied at the University of Jena , which he left after a year. He passed the humanistic school leaving examination at the Illustrious Gymnasium in Gotha at Easter 1856 and went to the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn for the summer semester of 1856 , where he studied classical philology. His academic teachers included Otto Jahn , Friedrich Ritschl , Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker and Leopold Schmidt . He also heard historical, philosophical and art-historical lectures and frequented the house of the legal scholar Clemens Theodor Perthes .

Schneider graduated at Easter 1860 from: On March 7, 1860 he was with the dissertation Quaestiones Xenophonteae Dr. phil. doctorate , on March 13, 1860 he passed the first state examination for the higher teaching post in the subjects Latin, Greek and German (for all classes) as well as history (up to fourth). He then taught for a few months at the Ernestinum Gymnasium in Gotha, which had recently emerged from the merger of the Illustre Gymnasium with the Ducal Realgymnasium.

Schneider continued his career outside of his home country in the Prussian Rhine Province and in East Friesland . He completed his probationary year at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne from October 1, 1860, and on October 1, 1861, he received a permanent position at the Gymnasium in Elberfeld (as a full teacher). Five years later, on October 1, 1866, Schneider returned to Cologne as a senior teacher at the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne. There he became a member of the Society of Friends of Antiquity in the Rhineland on May 22, 1867 . On April 1, 1875, he left the Rhineland and went as rector to the Progymnasium in Norden (East Friesland) , which was raised to a full state (Königliches Ulrichs-Gymnasium) under his leadership on November 5, 1877.

On April 1, 1881 Schneider accepted a position as director of the grammar school in Duisburg, which at that time was still run by a monastery. From 1885 it was a state (royal) high school. Schneider received several awards during his 27-year tenure: on January 18, 1893, the Order of the Red Eagle, 4th class, and on January 18, 1905, the Order of the Crown, 3rd class. On April 1, 1908, Schneider retired.

Scientific work

Richard Schneider has been concerned with Greek literature since his student days, especially with the grammarians whom Friedrich Ritschl had referred to him. After Schneider had already published some text-critical studies on Apollonios Dyskolos , he teamed up with Gustav Uhlig through Ritschl's mediation to create an edition of the traditional writings and fragments of Apollonios. The edition was published by Teubner-Verlag in its large-scale Grammatici Graeci series . Schneider published the first partial volumes in 1878 and 1880, which contained smaller writings with critical and exegetical commentary. The other volumes were delayed because both Schneider and Uhlig were overloaded with their official business as high school directors.

In the meantime Schneider published other writings, including some previously unknown Greek texts that he had found in manuscripts in the Bodleian Library ; in addition, some essays, speeches and reports on Greek tragedy, the situation of Greek teaching in Germany and the Epistulae of Horace . He never lost sight of the Apollonios edition. For decades he collected fragments of the lost writings of the grammarist and gave an insight into this work in an essay in the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie (1904). After his retirement he published his annotated edition of the fragmentarily preserved Apollonios writings in 1910 (as volume 3 of the edition). In the same year Uhlig also published the still outstanding second volume with Apollonios' De constructione .

Fonts (selection)

• Quaestiones Xenophonteae . Bonn 1860 (dissertation)
• Observationum criticarum in Apollonium Dyscolum specimen II . Cologne 1867 (school program)
• Commentarii critici et exegetici in Apollonium Dyscolum specimen . North 1878 (school program)
• Apollonii Dyscoli quae supersunt. Recensuerunt apparatum criticum commentarium indices adiecerunt Richardus Schneider et Gustavus Uhlig . Three volumes in four parts, Leipzig 1878-1910 ( Grammatici Graeci 2)
  • Volume 1,1 (1878): Apollonii scripta minora a Richardo Schneider edita continens
  • Volume 1,2 (1880): Richardi Schneideri commentarium criticum et exegeticum in Apollonii scripta minora continens
  • Volume 3 (1910): Praefationem adiecit, librorum Apollonii deperditorum fragmenta collegit disposuit explicavit, indices omnium librorum confecit Richardus Schneider
• Bodleiana . Leipzig 1887 (Contents: I. Additamenta ad volumen alterum Anecdotorum Oxoniensium Crameri. II. De Arcadii qui fertur codice Bodleiano disputatio. III. Excerpta e libris Bodleianis )
• Excerptum περὶ διαλέκτων. E codicibus Baroccianis LXXII et CIII bibliothecae Bodleianae Oxoniensis edidit Richardus Schneider . Leipzig 1894 (school program, Duisburg)
• Excerpta περὶ παθῶν. Edidit Richardus Schneider . Leipzig 1895 (school program, Duisburg)

literature

• Karl Wilhelm Bouterwek: History of the Latin school in Elberfeld and the grammar school that grew out of this . Elberfeld 1865, p. 207.
• Wilhelm Pökel : Philological Writer's Lexicon , Leipzig 1882. P. 247.
• Annual report on the royal high school and the associated pre-school in Duisburg . Duisburg 1908, p. 18f.

Web links

Wikisource: Richard Schneider  - Sources and full texts

• Richard Schneider's personnel sheet in the BIL's personal file in the archive database of the Library for Research on Educational History (BBF)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Date and place of death: Duisburg registry office No. 1287/1917; Communication from Duisburg City Archives, February 10, 2015.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Personal form, Library for Educational History Research, Sheet 2 ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . 
3. ^ Annual report on the Royal High School and the associated pre-school in Duisburg . Duisburg 1908, p. 19.
4. ↑ The Collection of Fragments of Apollonios Dyskolos . In: Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Volume 59 (1904), pp. 580–597 DFG / Rheinisches Museum (PDF) .