Walter Schmid (classical philologist, 1910)

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Walter Schmid (born August 28, 1910 in Reutlingen , † September 13, 1997 ibid) was a German classical philologist . He is not to be confused with the Swiss classical philologist of the same name.

Life

After attending school in the Protestant theological seminars of Kloster Schöntal and Stift Urach , Schmid studied classical philology , archeology and German at the universities of Tübingen (among others with Otto Weinreich ) and Munich . He received his doctorate in 1943 with a dissertation on Thucydides . After the end of the war, he worked in Reutlingen from 1945 as a teacher and from 1959 as deputy headmaster at the Johannes-Kepler-Gymnasium , from 1967 as director of the newly founded Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium in the process of being established. During his professional career and after his retirement, Schmid published numerous academic monographs, essays and reviews on Greek-Latin literature and gave lectures, including at the Baden-Württemberg regional association of the German Classical Philology Association . A focus of his scientific occupation was the prose rhythm theory of Aristotle and Cicero . Schmid has also written books on Catullus , Virgil and the appendix Vergiliana as well as Sallust .

Fonts

  • On the genesis and tectonics of Book I of Thucydides. Dissertation Tübingen 1943, published 1947 (Maschinenschr.).
  • About the classical theory and practice of the ancient prose rhythm. Hermes individual fonts 12, Wiesbaden 1959.
  • Catullus: Views and Perspectives. Göppingen academic contributions 87, Göppingen 1974, ISBN 978-3-87452-250-2 .
  • Virgil Problems. Academic contributions from Göppingen 120, Göppingen 1983, ISBN 978-3-87452-626-5 .
  • Sallust's early writings in the horizon of the complete works. Ph.CW Schmidt publishing house, Neustadt / Aisch 1993, ISBN 978-3-87707-469-5 .
  • with Karl Friz (Ed.): Latin word lore. 13th, revised edition by Walter Schmid, Vandenhoeck and Ruprecht, Göttingen 1964 (18th edition / reprint 1981), ISBN 978-3-525-71139-2 .

Articles (selection)

  • On Thucydides I 22.1 and 2. In: Philologus 99, volume 3/4 (1955).
  • Sallust: The speeches of Caesar and Catos. Terminology and ideology. In: Gymnasium 69, volume 3/4 (1962).

literature

Albert-Einstein-Gymnasium Reutlingen: Review of the first 25 years. Reutlingen 1992.

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personal data
SURNAME Schmid, Walter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German high school teacher and classical philologist
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1910
PLACE OF BIRTH Reutlingen
DATE OF DEATH September 13, 1997
Place of death Reutlingen