Schell, Fritz

He was born in an intelligent family and, like his elder brother Rudolph, was interested in ancient history and literature from childhood. After completing secondary education, he entered the University of Gottingen in 1869, where Rudolph was already studying by then. Already in the 2nd semester he became an associate, and in the 3rd semester he became a full listener of the philological seminar of the university. In the period from October 1870 to August 1871 he was forced to interrupt his studies, as he was called up to the front as a result of the outbreak of the Franco-Prussian war , was wounded in the battle of Bozansi, and then was treated in a military hospital for several months. In the winter semester of 1871/1872 he returned to study, enrolling at the University of Leipzig ; in 1874 he passed his final exams, in 1875 he defended his dissertation in Latin grammar. Moreover, since 1874 he taught at the University of Jena , where his brother Rudolph at the same time took the post of full professor. He was rehabilitated in 1877 (completed work on the dissertation in 1876, but the defense was postponed due to the death of his scientific adviser). After rehabilitation he taught at the University of Leipzig, in 1879 he married; in the summer semester of 1877, he immediately became an ordinary professor at the University of Heidelberg , where he taught for 42 years almost until the end of his life. Three times he was elected dean of the faculty of arts, in 1890/1891 he was vice-rector of the university. He resigned in July 1919 and died a few months later.

He was one of Richel ’s beloved students (his first scientific adviser, who did not live up to Schell’s defense) and his first scientific work — a collection and clarification of the evidence of ancient grammars about Latin stress (“De accentu linguae Latinae veterum grammaticorum testimonia”, 1876) brought about such the attention of his teacher that he drew him to his beloved work - the publication of Plautus (1871-1893). After this large publication, Schöll, together with Goetz, published in the Bibliotheca Teubneriana, a stereotypical text by Plaut (completed in 1896). Plaut also devoted many small articles (for example, "Divinationes in Plauti Truculentum", 1884). Schell's other works deal mainly with the interpretation of ancient authors (for example, Catullus in 1876-1878, also Cicero and others) and criticism of their text (for example, “Zu Ciceros Ligariana”, 1901; “Zwei alte Terenz-signalmen”, 1902). Most of them were published in the journal Rheinisches Museum. His work on editing the works of Cicero was interrupted by death. In addition, he wrote several biographical articles for the publication Allgemeinen Deutschen Biographie .

• Malein A.I. Shell, Friedrich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.

• An article in Meyer's dictionary (German) .