The Classical Museum
A Journal of Philology, and of Ancient History and Literature

This short-lived journal (1844–50), edited by Leonhard Schmitz (1807–90), illuminates the development of Classics as a specialist discipline.

Leonhard Schmitz (Edited by)

9781108057738, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

450 pages, 1 b/w illus. 2 maps
21.6 x 14 x 2.5 cm, 0.57 kg

Born near Aachen, Leonhard Schmitz (1807–90) studied at the University of Bonn, from which he received his PhD, before marrying an Englishwoman and becoming a naturalised British citizen. Made famous by the 1844 publication of his translation of Niebuhr's Lectures on the History of Rome, he became rector of the Royal High School, Edinburgh, where he taught Alexander Graham Bell. He also briefly tutored the future Edward VII (and he had previously taught Prince Albert in Bonn). This short-lived quarterly journal, which Schmitz founded and edited between 1844 and 1850, focused exclusively on aspects of classical antiquity – in contrast to the more general literary reviews that were common in the period. It illuminates the development of Classics as a specialist discipline as well as contemporary intellectual links between Britain and Germany. This first volume was published in 1844.

Preface
1. Investigations on ancient weights, coins, and measures
2. Hymn to Isis
3. Greek topography
4. Herodotus
5. A dissertation on a second Bosporus Cimmerius
6. Comparative etymology
7. On the meaning and origin of the verb 'to tirl'
8. Notices of recent publications
9. Foreign intelligence
10. Universities
11. List of recent philological publications
12. Remarks on the documents in the De corona of Demosthenes
13. The geography of the Anabasis of Xenophon, 1
14. Certain points in the chronology of Herodotus
15. On Aristotle's definition of tragedy
16. Napoleon on the capture of Troy
17. Observations on the Xanthian marbles
18. On the so-called monument of Sesostris
19. Mr Frere's translation of Aristophanes
20. Miscellanies
21. Notices of recent publications
22. Literary intelligence and universities
23. List of philological publications
24. On the chorus of the Eumenides
25. The geography of the Anabasis of Xenophon, 2
26. Excursions from Rome in June 1843
27. On the rhythmical declamation of the ancients
28. Review of Heinrich's edition of Juvenal
29. Niebuhr and the Westminster Review
30. On the meaning of 'civilization'
31. Miscellanies
32. Notices of recent publications
33. List of new philological publications.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]