Johann Gottlob Theaenus Schneider
German classicist and naturalist (1750–1822)
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Biography
Schneider was born at Collm in Saxony. 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.
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Legacy
Schneider is commemorated in the scientific name of a species of lizard, Eumeces schneiderii.
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