Hermann Schneider (philologist)

Hermann Schneider was born in Zweibrücken, Germany on 12 August 1886. He studied at the Maximiliansgymnasium in Munich from 1895 to 1904. From 1904 to 1905, Schneider studied at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich under Friedrich von der Leyen, Franz Muncker and Hermann Paul. From 1906 to 1910 he studied German and Romance philology at the University of Berlin under Andreas Heusler, Richard M. Meyer, Erich Schmidt and Wolfgang Schulze.

Schneider received his Ph.D. at Berlin in 1910 under the supervision of Schmidt. Completing his habilitation in 1912, Schneider became a lecturer at the University of Bonn, where he in 1914 was appointed an associate professor. Since 1915 he was an associate professor at the University of Berlin. Since 1921, Schneider was Professor of German Language and Literature at the University of Tübingen. After 1945, he was Rector at the University.

Schneider was a member of many learned societies, including the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, the Modern Language Association and the Royal Society of Arts and Sciences in Gothenburg. He retired from the University in 1951. Schneider died in Tübingen on 9 April 1961.

• Die Götter der Germanen, 1938