Wilhelm Schmitz (philologist)

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Wilhelm Schmitz (born August 2, 1828 in Kalkum , † June 17, 1898 in Cologne ) was a German philologist . Schmitz was a senior teacher at the Marzellengymnasium and director at the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cologne.

Life

Tironic notes from Schmitz's Commentarii notarum Tironianarum (1893)

Schmitz was born the son of an elementary school teacher. He attended the Marzellengymnasium in Cologne and from autumn 1849 studied history and philology at the University of Bonn . One of his professors was the philologist Friedrich Ritschl , who had a great influence on him. Both later exchanged extensive letters. In 1853 he received his doctorate at the Philosophical Faculty of Bonn University with the dissertation Quaestiones orthoepicae Latinae for Dr. phil. He received his practical training as a teacher at grammar schools in Bonn and Düsseldorf .

In the autumn of 1855 he became acting teacher at the grammar school in Koblenz and at Easter 1856 acting teacher at the grammar school in Düren . In the fall of 1856 Schmitz was already employed as a full teacher at the Düren grammar school, where he was appointed senior teacher in 1860. As such, he moved to the Marzellengymnasium in Cologne in 1865. At the beginning of October 1868 he was appointed rector of the Catholic Progymnasium and in autumn 1871 he was appointed director of the newly founded Kaiser-Wilhelms-Gymnasium in Cologne. He worked here for another 27 years. Wilhelm Schmitz died on June 17, 1898, at the age of 69, in Cologne.

Researches

Schmitz left an extensive body of literature . As early as 1863 he published the first tachygraphic study, which he wrote at the suggestion of his former professor Friedrich Ritschl. A year later a work appeared on the Codex Casselanus, which he dedicated to Ritschl. From 1870 to 1871 his studies on The Strasbourg Manuscript of the Tironic Notes appeared . The original manuscript was lost due to a fire in the Strasbourg library as a result of the Franco-Prussian War in 1870. Schmitz had saved the content of the text during a collation he made at the beginning of September 1869 . This was followed by studies on The Leiden Manuscripts of the Trionic Notes and the Parisian Manuscripts of the Trionic Notes . Also at Ritschel's suggestion, Schmitz published Contributions to Latin Linguistics and Literature in 1877 . His main work Commentarii notarum Trionianarium was published in 1893. He was co-author of the Panstenographikon magazine and the German Stenographenzeitung and the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie . Schmitz published numerous small works, including the series Mittheilungen from the files of the University of Cologne , in the programs of the Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gymnasium. Together with Hermann Keussen , he published an edition of the Cologne university registers from 1389 to 1559.

Publications (selection)

  • Quaestiones orthoepicae Latinae. (Dissertation), Bonn 1853.
  • De aspiratarum graecarum latinarumque pronuntiatione commentatio. Düren 1865.
  • Studies in Latin shorthand. Leipzig 1869.
  • Contributions to Latin language and literature studies. Leipzig 1877.
  • About Latin tachygraphy. Leipzig 1879.
  • Studies on the Tironic Notes. Bonn 1879.
  • Commentarii notarum Tironianarum. Leipzig 1893.
  • Miscellanea Tironiana. Leipzig 1896.

literature

  • Franz Kössler: Personal dictionary of teachers of the 19th century. Schaab − Scotti. Verlag Universitätsbibliothek, Giessen 2008 ( digitized version ).
  • Schmitz, Wilhelm. In: Anton Bettelheim (Hrsg.): Biographisches Jahrbuch and German Nekrolog. Volume 3, Georg Reimer, Berlin 1900, pp. 180-182 ( digitized version ).

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personal data
SURNAME Schmitz, Wilhelm
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German classical philologist and grammar school director
DATE OF BIRTH August 2, 1828
PLACE OF BIRTH Lime
DATE OF DEATH June 17, 1898
Place of death Cologne