Wilhelm Schmid (scholar)

Wilhelm Schmid (24 February 1859, in Künzelsau, Kingdom of Württemberg – 6 November 1951) was a German classical scholar, born at Künzelsau.

After studying at the universities of Tübingen and Strassburg, Schmid began teaching at Tübingen in 1887 and was appointed professor in 1893. His publications include:

• Kulturgeschichtliche Zusammenhang und Bedeutung der griechischen Renaissance in der Römerzeit (1898) – On the cultural and historical context, and the importance of the Greek Renaissance in the Roman period.
• Zur Geschichte des griechischen Dithyrambus (1901) – The history of the Greek dithyramb.
• Verzeichniss der griechischen Handschriften der Königlichen Universitäts-Bibliothek Tübingen (1902) – Directory of Greek manuscripts of the Royal University Library in Tübingen.
• Revisions of Wilhelm von Christ; Geschichte der griechischen Litteratur (volume i, fifth edition, Munich, 1908; sixth edition, part i, 1912; volume ii, fifth edition, Munich, 1911–1915).

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