Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (6 June 1810 – 11 January 1856), was a German classical scholar.

Biography

He was born on 6 June 1810 at

Helmstedt Helmstedt (; Eastphalian: ''Helmstidde'') is a town on the eastern edge of the German state of Lower Saxony. It is the capital of the District of Helmstedt. The historic university and Hanseatic city conserves an important monumental heritage of ...

. In 1833, he became a teacher at the

Braunschweig Braunschweig () or Brunswick ( , from Low German ''Brunswiek'' , Braunschweig dialect: ''Bronswiek'') is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany, north of the Harz Mountains at the farthest navigable point of the river Oker, which connects it to the Nor ...

gymnasium. In 1837 he was appointed an associate professor, and in 1842, a full professor of classical languages and literature at the

University of Göttingen The University of Göttingen, officially the Georg August University of Göttingen, (german: Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, known informally as Georgia Augusta) is a public research university in the city of Göttingen, Germany. Founded ...

where he died on 11 January 1856.

Works

Schneidewin's work on

Sophocles Sophocles (; grc, Σοφοκλῆς, , Sophoklễs; 497/6 – winter 406/5 BC)Sommerstein (2002), p. 41. is one of three ancient Greek tragedians, at least one of whose plays has survived in full. His first plays were written later than, or co ...

and the Greek lyric poets is of permanent value. His most important publications are: * ''Ibyci Rhegini carminum reliquiae'' (1833), severely criticized by G. Hermann. * ''Simonidis Cei carminum reliquiae'' (1835); edition of

Simonides of Ceos Simonides of Ceos (; grc-gre, Σιμωνίδης ὁ Κεῖος; c. 556–468 BC) was a Greek lyric poet, born in Ioulis on Ceos. The scholars of Hellenistic Alexandria included him in the canonical list of the nine lyric poets esteemed ...

. * ''Delectus poesis Graecorum elegiacae, iambicae, melicae'' (1838-39), in which the fragments of the lyric poets were for the first time published in a convenient form. * ''Corpus Paroemiographorum Graecorum'':

Zenobius Zenobius ( grc-gre, Ζηνόβιος) was a Greek sophist, who taught rhetoric at Rome during the reign of Emperor Hadrian (AD 117–138). Biography He was the author of a collection of proverbs in three books, still extant in an abridged form, ...

Diogenianus Diogenianus ( el, Διογενειανός, Διογενιανός) was a Greek grammarian from Heraclea in Pontus (or in Caria) who flourished during the reign of Hadrian. He was the author of an alphabetical lexicon, chiefly of poetical words, ...

Plutarchus Plutarch (; grc-gre, Πλούταρχος, ''Ploútarchos''; ; – after AD 119) was a Greek Middle Platonist philosopher, historian, biographer, essayist, and priest at the Temple of Apollo in Delphi. He is known primarily for his ' ...

and Gregorius Cyprius, 1839–51, with E. von Leutsch), Gottingae, apud Vandenhoeck et Ruprecht
vol. 1vol. 2
* ''Sophocles'' (1849-1854, revised after his death by A. Nauck). He also edited the fragments of the speeches of

Hypereides Hypereides or Hyperides ( grc-gre, Ὑπερείδης, ''Hypereidēs''; c. 390 – 322 BC; English pronunciation with the stress variably on the penultimate or antepenultimate syllable) was an Athenian logographer (speech writer). He was one ...

on behalf of Euxenippus and

Lycophron Lycophron (; grc-gre, Λυκόφρων ὁ Χαλκιδεύς; born about 330–325 BC) was a Hellenistic Greek tragic poet, grammarian, sophist, and commentator on comedy, to whom the poem ''Alexandra'' is attributed (perhaps falsely). Life and ...

(already published by

Churchill Babington Churchill Babington (; 11 March 182112 January 1889) was an English classical scholar, archaeologist and naturalist. He served as Rector of Cockfield, Suffolk. He was a cousin of Cardale Babington. Life He was born at Rothley Temple, in Lei ...

from a

papyrus Papyrus ( ) is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, '' Cyperus papyrus'', a wetland sedge. ''Papyrus'' (plural: ''papyri'') can also refer to a ...

discovered in

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, in 1847) and a

Latin Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of the ...

poem on

rhetoric Rhetoric () is the art of persuasion, which along with grammar and logic (or dialectic), is one of the three ancient arts of discourse. Rhetoric aims to study the techniques writers or speakers utilize to inform, persuade, or motivate parti ...

al figures by an unknown author
''Incerti auctoris de figuris vel schematibus versus heroici''
1841), found by

Jules Quicherat Jules Étienne Joseph Quicherat (13 October 1814 – 8 April 1882) was a French historian and archaeologist. His father, a working cabinet-maker, came from Paray-le-Monial to Paris to support his large family; Quicherat was born there. He w ...

in manuscript in the Paris library. Schneidewin was also the founder o
''Philologus''
(1846), a journal devoted to classical learning, and dedicated to the memory of K. O. Müller.

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* Attribution: * This work in turn cites: ** ** E. von Leutsch in ''Philologus'', x. ** M. Lechner, ''Zur Erinnerung an K. F. Hermann, F. W. Schneidewin'' (1864)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schneidewin, Friedrich Wilhelm 1810 births 1856 deaths People from Helmstedt People from the Duchy of Brunswick German classical philologists German philologists Academic staff of the University of Göttingen

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