Paul Gerhard Schmidt

Paul Gerhard Schmidt ( born March 25, 1937 in Pieske in Frankfurt ( Oder), † 25 September 2010 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) was a German medievalist and Professor of Latin Philology of the Middle Ages at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.

Life

Schmidt presented in 1956 at the Protestant school in Berlin -Grunewald, the High School and studied in Berlin and Göttingen, the subjects Classical and Medieval Latin philology. In July 1962 he was in Göttingen with a thesis on " supplements Latin prose in modern times. An Overview of reconstruction attempts to Latin authors from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, "the first New Latin dissertation in Germany, received his doctorate and went for two years to Rome, where he obtained his diploma as Palaeographus et archivist Vaticanus after a study of the historical auxiliary sciences. In 1970 he completed his habilitation in Göttingen with a critical edition of the Architrenius of Johannes de Hauvilla, which appeared in 1974. 1978 Schmidt was appointed as a full professor in Marburg. In 1989 he moved to Freiburg im Breisgau. He died on 25 September 2010 of a heart attack and was buried in Freiburg on the mountain fields cemetery.

Schmidt was a regular member of the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino, corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen, the Scientific Society at the University of Frankfurt am Main and a foreign member of the Instituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere. He held visiting professorships at Oxford, Florence, Fribourg ( Wolfgang Stammler Visiting Professor 1993-94 ), Siena, Tartu and Paris.

Throughout his life, dealt with Schmidt paleography and manuscript studies. He was ( co-) editor of the series " Dated manuscripts in libraries of the Federal Republic of Germany ", " Medieval Latin Studies and Texts" and the magazine " Itineraria. Letteratura di viaggio del mondo e conoscenza dall'Antichità al Rinascimento ". By the end of 1999, he was Chairman of the Subcommittee for manuscript cataloging the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. Schmidt was a member of the advisory boards of the " Onderzoekschool Mediëvistiek " ( Leiden / Groningen / Utrecht) and the Institute of European Cultural History ( Augsburg).

During his career, Schmidt supervised 16 doctoral theses ( including those of John Schilling ) and three post-doctoral theses ( by Udo Kühne, Thomas Haye and Elizabeth Stein).