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SCHOMANN, GEORG FRIEDRICH (1793—1879)

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SCHOMANN, GEORG See also:FRIEDRICH (1793—1879) , See also:German classical See also:scholar, was See also:born at See also:Stralsund in See also:Pomerania on the 28th of See also:June 1793. In 1827 he was appointed See also:professor of See also:ancient literature and eloquence in the university of Greifswald, where he died on the 25th of See also:March 1879. Schomann's See also:attention was chiefly devoted to the constitutional and religious antiquities of See also:Greece. His first See also:works on the subject were De comitiis Atheniensium (1819), the first See also:independent See also:account of the forms of Athenian See also:political See also:life, and a See also:treatise De sortitione judicum apud Athenienses (1820). In See also:conjunction with M. H. E. Meier, Schomann wrote Der attische See also:Process (1824, revised ed. by J. H. See also:Lipsius, 1883—1887), which, although in some respects out of date, still has considerable value. Among his other works are:—See also:editions of See also:Isaeus (1831) and See also:Plutarch's See also:Agis and Cleomenes (1839, important for the See also:Attic See also:law of See also:inheritance and the See also:history of the Spartan constitution) ; Antiquitates See also:juris publici Graecorum (1838); a See also:critical examination of See also:Grote's account of the Athenian constitution (1854, Eng. trans. by B. Bosanquet, 1878) from a conservative point of view; and lastly, Griechische Alterthumer (1855–1859; 4th ed. by J.

H. Lipsius, 1897–1902; Eng. trans. of vol. i. by E. G. See also:

Hardy and J. S. See also:Mann, 188o), treating of the See also:general See also:historical development of the See also:Greek states, followed by a detailed account of the constitutions of See also:Sparta, See also:Crete and See also:Athens, the cults and See also:international relations of the Greek tribes. The question of the religious institutions of the Greeks, which he considered an essential See also:part of their public life, had See also:early engaged his attention, and he held the See also:opinion that everything really religious was akin to See also:Christianity, and that the greatest intellects of Greece produced intuitively See also:Christian, dogmatic ideas. From this point of view he edited the Theogony of See also:Hesiod (1868), with a commentary, chiefly mythological, and See also:Cicero's De natura deorum (185o, 4th ed. 1876) ; translated with introduction and notes See also:Aeschylus's See also:Prometheus See also:Bound, and wrote a Prometheus Unbound (1844), in which Prometheus is brought to see the greatness of his offence and is pardoned by See also:Zeus. Of his contributions on grammatical subjects See also:special mention may be made of See also:Die Lehre von den Redetheilen nach den See also:Alten dargestellt (1862), an introduction to the elements of the See also:science of See also:grammar. His many-sidedness is shown in his Opuscula academica (4 vols., 1856–1871). See F.

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Bursian's Biog. Jahrbuch See also:fur Altertumskunde 0879); A. Baumeister in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie, xxxii. ; C. Bursian, Gesch. der class. Philologie in Deutschland (1883), and J. E. See also:Sandys, His'. of Classical Scholarship, iii. (1908), p. 165.

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