Education
He studied theology, philosophy and other subjects at Duisburg and Utrecht, and for a period of time, worked as a private tutor in Arnhem and Amsterdam.
He studied theology, philosophy and other subjects at Duisburg and Utrecht, and for a period of time, worked as a private tutor in Arnhem and Amsterdam.
He was the father of clergyman Karl Wilhelm Moritz Snethlage (1792–1871). In 1789 he succeeded Theodor Friedrich Stange as director of the Hamm gymnasium. From 1802 to 1826, he was director of the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin.
In 1816 he was appointed Konsistorialrat.
In 1826 he was succeeded at Joachimsthal by classical philologist August Meineke.