Erich Schmidt

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Erich Schmidt is a German literary scholar best known for his influential work in German philology and literary history during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

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instanceOf Germanist
human
literary scholar
academicDiscipline German studies
literary studies
philology
academicStatus leading authority in German literary scholarship of his time
countryOfCitizenship German Empire
Germany
employer Humboldt University of Berlin NERFINISHED
University of Vienna
era early 20th century
late 19th century
familyName Schmidt
fieldOfWork German literature
German philology
literary history
givenName Erich
hasNotability best known for influential work in German philology and literary history
inAcademicCircle German philologists of the Wilhelmine era
influenced development of modern German literary history as a discipline
methods of historical-philological literary research
languageOfWorkOrName German
memberOf Prussian Academy of Sciences
movement positivist literary scholarship
name Erich Schmidt NERFINISHED
notableFor contributions to the study of 18th- and 19th-century German literature
influential work in German philology
research in German literary history
notableWork Lessing: Geschichte seines Lebens und seiner Schriften
Richard Wagner: Sein Leben und seine Werke
Schiller und die deutsche Geistesentwicklung
occupation literary historian
literary scholar
philologist
university teacher
positionHeld professor of German literature
rector of the University of Berlin
sexOrGender male
studied Friedrich Schiller
Weimar Classicism
surface form: German Classicism

German Enlightenment literature
Gotthold Ephraim Lessing
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Schmidt hasNotableBearer Erich Schmidt