Education
Born in Kiel, he studied under Hermann Sauppe in Göttingen, under Hermann Usener and Franz Bücheler in Bonn, under Theodor Mommsen in Berlin and under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in Greifswald.
linguist philologist university professor
Born in Kiel, he studied under Hermann Sauppe in Göttingen, under Hermann Usener and Franz Bücheler in Bonn, under Theodor Mommsen in Berlin and under Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff in Greifswald.
Foreign similarly named individuals, see Editor Schwartz (disambiguation). In 1880 he obtained his doctorate from the University of Bonn. In 1884 he became a lecturer in Bonn, afterwards being appointed professor of classical philology at the University of Rostock (1887).
This was followed by professorships at the Universities of Giessen (1893), Strasbourg (1897), Göttingen (1902) and Freiburg (1909).
In 1914 he returned to Strasbourg, where he served as university rector in 1915/16. In 1919 he was a successor to Otto Crusius at the University of Munich.
He published numerous articles and works in the area of Greek and Roman history, including on the Catilinarian conspiracy. His magnum opus was a publication of the acts of oecumenical councils (ACO) from Ephesus (431) onwards.
He died in Munich in 1940.
Zur Entstehung der Ilias (On the origin of the Iliad), Strasbourg 1918. Das Geschichtswerk des Thukydides, (The historical works of Thucydides), Bonn 1919, second edition 1929. "Codex Vaticanus Greek 1431, Eine Antichalkedonische Sammlung Aus Der Zeit Kaiser Zenos", et cetera
Selections from the Contents of the Codex, including letters from and to Saint Cyril, Patriarch of Alexandria.
With Introduction and Notes by East. Schwartz, 1927.
Prussian Academy of Sciences. Austrian Academy of Sciences. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities.
Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Russian Academy of Sciences.