Background
Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony.
biologist Ichthyologist lexicographer Librarian linguist philologist university professor
Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony.
University of Göttingen.
In 1774, on the recommendation of Christian Gottlob Heine, he became secretary to the famous Strasbourg scholar Richard François Brunck, and in 1811 became professor of ancient languages and eloquence at Breslau (chief librarian, 1816) where he died in 1822.
Prussian Academy of Sciences. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.