Hermann Schneider (12 August 1886 – 9 April 1961) was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies.

Biography

Hermann Schneider was born in Zweibrücken, Germany on 12 August 1886. He studied at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1895 to 1904. From 1904 to 1905, Schneider studied at the

Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Germany. It is Germany's sixth-oldest university in continuous operatio ...

under

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, Franz Muncker and Hermann Paul. From 1906 to 1910 he studied German and Romance philology at the University of Berlin under Andreas Heusler, , Erich Schmidt and

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. Schneider received his Ph.D. at Berlin in 1910 under the supervision of Schmidt. Completing his

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in 1912, Schneider became a lecturer at the University of Bonn, where he in 1914 was appointed an associate professor. Since 1915 he was an associate professor at the University of Berlin. Since 1921, Schneider was Professor of

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and Literature at the University of Tübingen. After 1945, he was

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at the University. Schneider was a member of many learned societies, including the

Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities (german: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften) is an independent public institution, located in Munich. It appoints scholars whose research has contributed considerably to the increase of knowledg ...

, the

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and the

Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg The Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg ( sv, Kungliga Vetenskaps- och Vitterhets-Samhället i Göteborg, abbreviated KVVS and often known simply as ''Samhället'') is a Swedish Royal Academy. Its predecessor was founded in Gothenburg ...

. He retired from the University in 1951. Schneider died in Tübingen on 9 April 1961.

Selected works

* ''Die Götter der Germanen'', 1938

Sources

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(Hrsg.), unter Mitarbeit von Birgit Wägenbaur u. a.: '' Internationales Germanistenlexikon 1800–1950.'' Band 3: ''R–Z.'' De Gruyter, Berlin/New York 2003, . * 1886 births 1961 deaths German philologists Germanic studies scholars Germanists Humboldt University of Berlin alumni Academic staff of the Humboldt University of Berlin Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich alumni University of Bonn alumni University of Marburg alumni Academic staff of the University of Tübingen 20th-century philologists {{Germany-linguist-stub