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)

9781108057790, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 13 December 2012

522 pages
21.6 x 14 x 3 cm, 0.66 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 seventh volume was published in 1850.

Notice
1. On critical induction
2. Remarks on Poggio's dialogue De varietate fortunae
3. An attempt to restore the text and the scansion of Homer
4. Remarks on Sophocles' Oedipus Coloneus and Trachiniae
5. On the relation between the consonantal systems of the English and Sanscrit languages (2)
6. Museum Disneianum
7. Miscellanies
8. Notices of recent publications
9. Lists of recent philological publications
10. Miscellaneous criticisms
11. Remarks on the use of the accusative after participles and adjectives
12. On the relation between the consonantal systems of the English and Sanscrit languages (3)
13. On the earliest poetry of the Romans
14. On Grimm's history of the German language
15. Commentaries on, and illustrations of, the Eneis of Virgil (4)
16. Miscellanies
17. Notices of recent publications
18. Lists of recent philological publications
19. Contributions towards a metaphysics of Greek syntax
20. On the verb 'to be', and its equivalents
21. When did Greece become a Roman province
22. Remarks on some passages in the ancient authors
23. Roman names
24. An attempt to restore the text and the scansion of Homer
25. Miscellanies
26. Notices of recent publications
27. Lists of recent philological publications
28. On the date of the Laocoon
29. Ritschl's Plautus
30. Further remarks on the use of the accusative after participles and adjectives
31. An attempt to restore the text and the scansion of Homer
32. On the eleventh of Pindar's Pythian Odes
33. On the theology of Homer
34. On the adjective 'paipaloeis'
35. Miscellanies
36. Notices of recent publications
37. Lists of recent philological publications.

Subject Areas: Classical history / classical civilisation [HBLA1]