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GEORG See also:FRIEDRICH See also:SCHOMANN (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
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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: 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 . S(usemihl) in C . See also: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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