Peter Lebrecht Schmidt

Peter Lebrecht Schmidt ( born July 28, 1933, Dessau ) is a German classical scholar.

Life

Since he had as a child of a pastor in the GDR little chance of a university education, Schmidt emigrated after graduation from the FRG and began at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen his studies. Special suggestion he received from Walter Jens. Because of its tendency to Latin literature, he later moved to Freiburg, where he received his doctorate in 1959 with Karl Buechner with a dissertation on Cicero 's De legibus. He then worked as a research assistant at Manfred Fuhrmann, with whom he moved to Kiel in 1966 to Constance in 1962. At this university, which was then still under construction, Schmidt habilitated 1969. 1973 he was appointed professor of Latin studies in Konstanz. In 1998 he was retired.

Schmidt dealt with throughout the ancient Latin literature, especially with Claudian and the late antique historians. Together with Reinhart Herzog he got the new edition of the Roman literary history for the handbook of classical studies, which had been founded by Martin Schanz and expanded by Carl Hosius. The revision is accordingly called Duke - Schmidt.

According to Schmidt's retirement, his students Fugmann Joachim, Martin trouser and Bernhard Zimmermann gave him the collection of essays traditions latinitatis: out studies on the reception and transmission of Latin literature, which pays tribute to his life's work and includes a list of his writings.