Friedrich Wilhelm Schneidewin (June 6, 1810 - January 11, 1856), German classical scholar, was born at Helmstedt.
In 1833 he became a teacher at the Brunswick gymnasium, in 1837 extraordinary and in 1842 ordlinary professor of classical languages and literature in the university of Göttingen, where he died.
Schneidewin's work on Sophocles and the Greek lyric poets is of permanent value. His most important publications are:
- Ibyci Rhegini reliquiae (1833), severely criticized by G 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 time published in a convenient form
- Paroemiographi graeci (1839, with E von Leutsch)
- Sophocles (1849-1854, revised after his death by A Nauck).
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).
This entry was originally from the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.