Wilhelm Schmid (philologist)

Wilhelm Schmid

Wilhelm Schmid (born February 24, 1859 in Künzelsau , † November 6, 1951 in Tübingen ) was a German classical philologist .

Life

Wilhelm Schmid, the son of pharmacist Heinrich Schmid and his wife Karoline geb. Messner, attended elementary and secondary school in Künzelsau from 1866 to 1871 and then the grammar school in Heilbronn . From 1877 he studied Classical Philology at the University of Tübingen (and for a few months 1878/1879 at the University of Strasbourg ). After the first philological service examination (1881) he worked as an assistant teacher at the grammar school in Schwäbisch Hall, where he passed the second service examination in 1883. In 1884 he moved to the Karls-Gymnasium Stuttgart as a grammar school vicar . In 1885 he was at the University of Tuebingen in Erwin Rohde with a thesis about the paintings of the older Philostratos Dr. phil. obtained his doctorate and then went on a research and educational trip to Greece, Italy and Sicily (until 1886). After his return he worked for a short time as an assistant teacher at the Karlsgymnasium, but moved to Tübingen that same year and completed his habilitation there in the summer of 1887. In 1889 he received a teaching position for high school education, palaeography and epigraphy as well as style exercises at the philological seminar.

In 1893 Schmid was appointed associate professor in Tübingen, and in 1898 full professor (as the successor to Otto Crusius ). He worked in Tübingen until his retirement in 1926 and beyond.

The focus of Schmid's scientific work was ancient Greek literature. Together with Otto Stählin , he continued Wilhelm von Christ's history of Greek literature for the handbook of classical studies . In addition to a multi-volume study on atticism in imperial Greek literature, he wrote articles for the Real Encyclopedia and was co-editor of the Tübingen Contributions to Classical Studies from 1927 to 1943 .

Schmid was married to Emma Kauffmann, the daughter of the Tübingen University Music Director Emil Kauffmann (1836–1909) and Emma, ​​geb. Tritschler (1834-1915).

Schmid's son was the musicologist Ernst Fritz Schmid (1904–1960), his son-in-law the teacher and historian Wilhelm Pfleiderer (1878–1953).

Fonts

• Atticism in its main representatives from Dionysius of Halicarnass to the second Philostratus . 5 volumes. Stuttgart 1887-1897. Reprinted by Olms, Hildesheim 1964.
• Directory of the Greek manuscripts of the Royal University Library of Tübingen . Tubingen 1902.
• Investigations into the bound Prometheus . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart 1929.
• as editor: Wilhelm v. Christ's History of Greek Literature. 5 volumes. CH Beck, Munich 1929–1948 (= Handbook of Classical Studies. Department 7).

literature

• Genethliakon Wilhelm Schmid on his seventieth birthday on February 24, 1929 . Stuttgart 1929.
• Otto Weinreich : Selected Writings. Volume 3: 1937-1970 . Amsterdam 1979, pp. 77-79. 195f. 272-274. 321f. 396–404 (articles on the 80, 85th, 90th and 100th birthday of Wilhelm Schmid and an obituary)
• German biographical encyclopedia . 2nd edition, Volume 9, Saur, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-598-25039-2 , p. 24.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wilhelm Schmid in the catalog of the German National Library