Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin


Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin, was a German classical scholar.

Biography

He was born on 6 June 1810 at Helmstedt. In 1833 he became a teacher at the Braunschweig 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 where he died on 11 January 1856.

Works

Schneidewin's work on Sophocles and the Greek lyric poets is of permanent value. His most important publications are:
He also edited the fragments of the speeches of Hypereides on behalf of Euxenippus and Lycophron and a Latin poem on rhetorical figures by an unknown author, found by Jules Quicherat in manuscript in the Paris library. Schneidewin was also the founder of , a journal devoted to classical learning, and dedicated to the memory of K. O. Müller.