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SCHNEIDER, JOHANN GOTTLOB (1750-1822)

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SCHNEIDER, JOHANN GOTTLOB (1750-1822) , See also:German classical See also:scholar and naturalist, was See also:born at Kollmen in See also:Saxony on the 18th of See also:January 1750. In 1774, on the recommendation of See also:Heyne, he became secretary to the famous See also:Strassburg scholar, R. F. See also:Brunck, and in 1811 See also:professor of See also:ancient See also:languages and eloquence at. See also:Breslau (See also:chief librarian, 1816) where he died on the 12th of January 1822. Of his numerous See also:works the most important was his Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handworterbuch (1797-1798), the first See also:independent See also:work of the See also:kind since Stephanus's See also:Thesaurus, and the basis of F. See also:Passow's and all succeeding See also:Greek lexicons. A See also:special improvement was the introduction of words and expressions connected with natural See also:history and See also:science. The scientific writings of ancient authors especially attracted him. He published See also:editions of See also:Aelian, De natura animalium; See also:Nicander, Alexipharmaca and Theriaca; the Scriptores rei rusticae; See also:Aristotle, Historia animalium and Politica; See also:Epicurus, Physica and Meteorologica; See also:Theophrastus, Eclogae physicae; See also:Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the See also:complete works of See also:Xenophon and See also:Vitruvius; the Argonautica of the so-called See also:Orpheus (for which Ruhnken nicknamed him " Orpheomastix "); an See also:essay on the See also:life and writings of See also:Pindar and a collection of his fragments. His Eclogae physicae is a selection of extracts of various length from Greek and Latin writers on scientific subjects, containing the See also:original See also:text and commentary, with essays on natural history and science in ancient times. See F.

Passow, Opuscula academica (1835); C. See also:

Bursian, Geschichte der classischen Philologie in Deutschland (1883).

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