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SCHNEIDEWIN, See also:FRIEDRICH WILHELM (1810—1856) , See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Helmstedt on the 6th of See also:June 181o. In 1833 he became a teacher at the See also:Brunswick gymnasium, in 1837 extraordinary and in 1842 See also:ordinary See also:professor of classical See also:languages and literature in the university of See also:Gottingen, where he died on the 11th of See also:January 1856. Schneidewin's See also:work on See also:Sophocles and the See also:Greek lyric poets is of permanent value. His most important publications are: Ibyci Rhegini reliquiae (1833), severely criticized by G. See also:Hermann; Simonidis Cei reliquiae (1835); Delectus poesis Graecorum elegiacae, iambicae, melicae (1838—1839), in which the fragments of the lyric poets were for the first See also:time published in a convenient See also:form; Paroemiogra phi graeci (1839, with E. von Leutsch); Sophocles' (1849—1854, revised after his See also:death by A. See also:Nauck). He also edited the fragments of the speeches of See also:Hypereides on behalf of Euxenippus and See also:Lycophron (already published by See also:Churchill See also:Babington from a See also:papyrus discovered in See also:Egyptian See also:Thebes in 1847) and a Latin poem on rhetorical figures by an unknown author (Incerti auctoris de figuris vei scliematibus versus heroici, 1841), found by Jules See also:Quicherat in MS. in the See also:Paris library. Schneidewin was also the founder of Philologus (1846), a See also:journal devoted to classical learning, and dedicated to the memory of K. 0. See also:Muller. See A. Baumeister in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie; E. von Leutsch in Philologus, x.; and M.

'Lechner, Zur Erinnerung an K. F. Hermann, F. W. Schneidewin (1864).

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