Schnitz, LEONHARD

Schnitz, LEONHARD, was born in 1807, and educated at the Gymnasium of Aix-la-Chapelle and at the new university of Bonn, where he was profoundly influenced by Niebuhr, Welcker, and Brandis. His marriage to an English lady in 1837 drew him to England, and here with Dr W. Smith he completed the translation (vol. iii. 1842) of Niebuhr's history which Hare and Thirlwall had begun (vols. i.-ii. 1828-32). His translations of Niebuhr's Lectures on the History of Rome (1834; 2d ed. 3 vols. 1849-50), Lectures on Ancient History (3 vols. 1852), and Lectures on Ancient Ethnography and Geography (2 vols. 1853) followed; and later, from his own pen, excellent manuals of the History of Greece, and of Rome, Ancient History, Ancient Geography, and Mediæval History. He edited the Classical Museum for some years, and was a large contributor to the Penny Cyclopædia and Dr W. Smith's Dictionaries of Greek and Roman Antiquities, of Biography, and Mythology, and of Geography. He translated Zumpt's Latin Grammar, and edited a popular series of Latin class-books for W. & R. Chambers. In 1846 he became Rector of the Edinburgh High School, and in 1866 head of the International College at Isleworth, which post he resigned in 1874. He acted for some years as classical examiner to London University, was injured by a street accident in 1889, but recovered, only to be carried off by influenza, 28th May 1890.