Peter Lebrecht Schmidt (28 July 1933, in

Dessau Dessau is a town and former municipality in Germany at the confluence of the rivers Mulde and Elbe, in the '' Bundesland'' (Federal State) of Saxony-Anhalt. Since 1 July 2007, it has been part of the newly created municipality of Dessau-Roßlau ...

, Germany – 22 October 2019, in Germany) was a German

classical scholar 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 and their related original languages, Ancient Greek and Latin. Classics ...

. He was an authority on

Cicero Marcus Tullius Cicero ( ; ; 3 January 106 BC – 7 December 43 BC) was a Roman statesman, lawyer, scholar, philosopher, and academic skeptic, who tried to uphold optimate principles during the political crises that led to the estab ...

Publications

* ''Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike'' by Reinhart Herzog and Peter Lebrecht SchmidtTitulus: identifying

medieval Latin Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin used in Roman Catholic Western Europe during the Middle Ages. In this region it served as the primary written language, though local languages were also written to varying degrees. Latin functioned ...

texts : an

evidence Evidence for a proposition is what supports this proposition. It is usually understood as an indication that the supported proposition is true. What role evidence plays and how it is conceived varies from field to field. In epistemology, evidenc ...

-based approach - Page 152 Richard Sharpe - 2003 "This Handbuch der lateinischen Literatur der Antike, designed by the late Reinhart Herzog and Peter Lebrecht Schmidt, is both informative and, where I feel able to appraise it, judicious in its treatment of sometimes complicated questions." * '' Die Uberlieferung von Ciceros Schrift 'De Legibus' in Mittelalter und Renaissance (Munich, 1974). ''Peter Lebrecht Schmidt''

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