Background
As the son of a Kantor and teacher, Schlie was taught by private tuition until his graduation examination in Rostock in 1863.
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As the son of a Kantor and teacher, Schlie was taught by private tuition until his graduation examination in Rostock in 1863.
He then studied philology and art history at the University of Rostock and University of Munich, graduating in 1867.
Next he worked for 2 years as an auxiliary secretary at the Prussian Archaeological Institute in Rome. From 1869 he worked as a teacher at the several secondary schools in Mecklenburg before in 1877 becoming director of the Schweriner Kunstmuseums. Friedrich Schlie received several honours, being made a Hofrat in 1882, Professor in 1891 and Geheimen Hofrat in 1899.
He also worked for the Society of Mecklenburgische History and Antiquity.
In the years 1898 to 1902, he published his comprehensive five volume work "Kunstund Geschichtsdenkmäler des Großherzogtums Mecklenburg-Schwerin" (Art and Art History of the Great-Dukedom of Mecklenburg-Schwerin"). A 1902 marble bust of Schlies by Ludwig Brunow is to be found in the Staatl.
Museums Schwerin.
German Archaeological Institute]
He was a corresponding member of the Archaeological Institute in Rome and Berlin, as well as a permanent member of the committee of the international art historical congress.