Ludwig Schwabe


Ludwig Schwabe was a German classical philologist and professor of classical archaeology born in Giessen.
He studied classical philology and archaeology at the Universities of Giessen and Göttingen, receiving his doctorate in 1857 at Giessen. In 1863 he became an associate professor at Giessen, and soon afterwards relocated to the Imperial University of Dorpat as a professor of classical philology. In 1872 he was appointed professor of classical philology and chair of classical archaeology at the University of Tübingen, where in 1881–82 he was university rector.

Literary works

Among his better written works was an influential examination of the Roman poet Catullus titled, and a revision of Wilhelm Siegmund Teuffel's Geschichte der römischen Literatur. Other noted publications by Schwabe include:Ludovici Schwabii In Cirin carmen Observationes pars I, 1871Zu Plautus Menaechmen, 1872Ludovici Schwabii de Musaeo Nonni imitator liber, 1876Pergamon und seine Kunst, 1882Die kaiserlichen Dezennalien und die alexandrinischen Münzen, 1896