Georg Friedrich Schömann

Georg Friedrich Schömann ( born June 28, 1793 in Stralsund, † March 25, 1879 in Greifswald ) was a German classical scholar.

Life

Schömann, was born as the eldest son of the imperial lawyers and notary Jacob Georg Friedrich Schömann and his wife Mariana Regina Friderica, born shrines. After the separation of his parents, he was welcomed by his grandfather in Anklam, where he attended high school in order to relate the University of Greifswald in 1809. The first and last semester he studied here, three intervening in Jena. He was a member of the Corps Saxonia Jena I ( 1810) and Pomerania Greifswald ( 1812).

After completing his studies, he worked as a private tutor and was vice principal at the high school in 1813 Anklam and Greifswald in 1814, pro-rector there in 1818. 1827 he became professor of classical literature and rhetoric at the University of Greifswald. At the University several times rector was (most recently 1856) selected, but also initiated since 1852, the Scientific Examination Commission for the teaching profession.

Schömanns main interest was the state constitution and religion in ancient Greece. His first work in the field were De comitiis Atheniensium (1819 ), the first independent investigation of the form of political life in Athens, and a treatise De sortitione judicum apud Athenienses (1820 ). In conjunction with MHE Schömann Meyer wrote The Attic Process ( 1824). Other works are:

• Editions of Isaeus (1831 ) and Plutarch's Agis and Cleomenes (1839, Attic much for the right of inheritance and the history of the Spartan Constitution)
• Antiquitates juris publici Graecorum (1838 )
• A critical study of George Grote's report on the Athenian Constitution ( 1854) from the conservative point of view
• Greek antiquities (1855-1859), on the development of the Greek States, with an accurate account of the constitutions of Sparta, Crete and Athens, the cults and international relations of the Greek tribes.

The question of the religious institutions of the Greeks, which they devoted a considerable part of their public life after Schömanns view, soon attracted his attention, and he took the view that everything really Religious was similar to Christianity, and that the great thinkers of the spawned Greeks intuitively Christian dogmatic ideas. From this perspective, he published the Theogony of Hesiod (1868 ) with a mainly mythological comment, and Cicero's De natura deorum (1850, 4th edition 1876); he translated Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and wrote an unfettered Prometheus (1844 ), is brought into the Prometheus to recognize the greatness of his offense, and was pardoned by Zeus. From his contributions to grammatical issues should be mentioned the doctrine represented by the parts of speech according to the ancients (1862 ), an introduction to the elements of grammar. Its versatility he shows in Opuscula Academica ( 4 volumes, 1856-1871 ).

Schömann 1855 elected foreign member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.