Fritz Schöll, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Fritz Schöll

German classical philologist

Date of Birth: 08-Feb-1850

Place of Birth: Weimar, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 14-Sep-1919

Profession: university teacher, classical scholar, classical philologist

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Friedrich (Fritz) Schöll (8 February 1850 in Weimar – 14 September 1919 in Rottweil) was a German classical philologist, known for his editions of Plautus, Varro and Cicero.
He was the son of archaeologist Gustav Adolf Schöll (1805–1882) and the brother of philologist Rudolf Schöll (1844–1893). He studied at the universities of Göttingen and Leipzig, obtaining his habilitation in 1876.
From 1877 he was a professor of classical philology at the University of Heidelberg.