Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider

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Johann Gottlob Schneider
Silesia Province
NationalityGerman
Scientific career
Fields

Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider (18 January 1750 – 12 January 1822) was a

classicist and naturalist
.

Biography

Schneider was born at

Breslau
(chief librarian, 1816) where he died in 1822.

Works

Of his numerous works the most important was his Kritisches griechisch-deutsches Handwörterbuch (1797–1798), the first independent work of the kind since

A Greek-English Lexicon
). A special improvement was the introduction of words and expressions connected with natural history and science.

In 1801, he corrected and expanded re-published Marcus Elieser Bloch's Systema Ichthyologiae iconibus cx illustratum, a famous catalog of fishes with beautiful illustrations that is cited (as Bloch and Schneider, 1801) as the taxonomy authority for many species of fish.

The scientific writings of ancient authors especially attracted him. He published editions of

Historia plantarum, Eclogae physicae; Oppian, Halieutica and Cynegetica; the complete works of Xenophon and Vitruvius; the Argonautica of the so-called Orpheus (for which Ruhnken nicknamed him "Orpheomastix"); an essay on the life and writings of Pindar
and a collection of his fragments. His Eclogae physicae is a selection of extracts of various length from Greek and Latin writers on scientific subjects, containing the original text and commentary, with essays on natural history and science in ancient times.

Legacy

Schneider is commemorated in the

Eumeces schneiderii.[1]

Works

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