Ludwig Schwabe (June 24, 1835 – February 20, 1908) was a German

classical philologist Classics or classical studies is the study of classical antiquity. In the Western world, classics traditionally refers to the study of Classical Greek and Roman literature Latin literature includes the essays, histories, poems, plays, and ot ...

and professor of classical archaeology born in

Giessen Giessen, spelled Gießen in German (), is a town in the German state (''Bundesland'') of Hesse, capital of both the district of Giessen and the administrative region of Giessen. The population is approximately 90,000, with roughly 37,000 univer ...

. He studied classical

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

and

archaeology Archaeology or archeology is the scientific study of human activity through the recovery and analysis of material culture. The archaeological record consists of artifacts, architecture, biofacts or ecofacts, sites, and cultural landsca ...

at the Universities of

and

Göttingen Göttingen (, , ; nds, Chöttingen) is a university city in Lower Saxony, central Germany, the capital of the eponymous district. The River Leine runs through it. At the end of 2019, the population was 118,911. General information The ori ...

, receiving his doctorate in 1857 at Giessen. In 1863 he became an associate professor at Giessen, and soon afterwards relocated to the

University of Dorpat The University of Tartu (UT; et, Tartu Ülikool; la, Universitas Tartuensis) is a university in the city of Tartu in Estonia. It is the national university of Estonia. It is the only classical university in the country, and also its biggest ...

as a professor of classical philology. In 1872 he was appointed professor of classical philology and chair of classical archaeology at the

University of Tübingen The University of Tübingen, officially the Eberhard Karl University of Tübingen (german: Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen; la, Universitas Eberhardina Carolina), is a public research university located in the city of Tübingen, Baden-W� ...

, where in 1881–82 he was university

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Literary works

Among his better written works was an influential examination of the Roman poet

Catullus Gaius Valerius Catullus (; 84 - 54 BCE), often referred to simply as Catullus (, ), was a Latin poet of the late Roman Republic who wrote chiefly in the neoteric style of poetry, focusing on personal life rather than classical heroes. His ...

title
''Quaestiones Catullianae''
(1862), and a revision of

Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel (; September 27, 1820March 8, 1878), German classical scholar, was born at Ludwigsburg in the Kingdom of Württemberg. In 1849 he was appointed extraordinary, in 1857 ordinary professor in the university of Tübingen, whic ...

's ''Geschichte der römischen Literatur'' (1882). Other noted publications by Schwabe include: * ''Ludovici Schwabii In Cirin carmen Observationes pars I'', 1871 * ''Zu Plautus Menaechmen'', 1872 * ''Ludovici Schwabii de Musaeo Nonni imitator liber'', 1876 * ''Pergamon und seine Kunst'', 1882 * ''Die kaiserlichen Dezennalien und die alexandrinischen Münzen'', 1896

References

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(list of publications) * Krmnicek, S. 2017. Ludwig Schwabe und das Archäologische Institut. In: P. Baas, S. Krmnicek and J. Lipps (eds) Klassische Archäologie im Wandel. Zum 150-jährigen Bestehen des Tübinger Instituts. Tübinger Archäologische Forschungen Sonderschriften 1. Rahden/Westf.: Marie Leidorf, 67-76. {{DEFAULTSORT:Schwabe, Ludwig German classical philologists People from Giessen University of Tartu faculty University of Tübingen faculty 1835 births 1908 deaths University of Giessen alumni University of Göttingen alumni Place of birth missing