Didrik Thomas Johannes Schnitler
Didrik Thomas Johannes Schnitler (9 September 1833 – 15 December 1888) was a Norwegian military officer and war historian.
Personal life
He was born in Østre Toten, as the son of military officer Balthasar Schnitler (died 1840) and Bolette Rogneby.[1] He married Nanni Cathrine Sidonia Gudmundson (1833–1901) in 1859,[1] and was the father of military officer and historian Gudmund Schnitler.[2]
Career
Schnitler graduated from the Norwegian Military Academy (Template:Lang-no) in 1854.[1] His first assignment was at the Bergenhusiske gevorbne Musketerkorps in Bergen.[3], before he studied at the Norwegian Military College (Template:Lang-no), where he graduated in 1858.[1] He served at the 2nd Akershusiske Brigade, and then at Kanalvæsenet. From 1859 he was assigned at the General staff, where he had the title of Adjoint from 1864.[4] He had the rank of Captain from 1872,[1] and from 1876 a specal post as military historian.[5] He had the rank of Lieutenant Colonel from 1882. He was teacher of military history at the Norwegian Military Academy and at the Norwegian Military College.[1]
His main work is the four volume series Almindelig krigshistorie ("General War History"), published between 1878 and 1885.[6] The series is an expanded version of works originally written for his lectures at the Military Academy. Volume I covered the Ancient Greek and Macedonain period, volume II covered the Roman period, volume III covered Medieval warfare, and volume IV the period until 1650.[7] A fifth volume, based on his manuscripts,[8] covering the period from 1650 to 1792, was completed and published by his son Gudmund Schnitler in 1905.[2]
He was a member of the editorial board of the periodical Norskt militært Tidsskrift. He was secretary of the Miliary Commission of 1869, a member of the Military Education Commission from 1870 to 1872, and member of the Commission of 1884 which had been given the mandate to prepare for reorganization of the Army.[1]
A selection of his articles originally published in various magazines was published in 1895 as Blade af Norges krigshistorie.[9] He was decorated Knight of the Order of St. Olav in 1880, and was also Knight of the Swedish Order of the Sword, the Order of the Polar Star, and the Prussian Order of the Crown.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h Amundsen, O. Delphin (1947). Den kongelige norske Sankt Olavs Orden (in Norwegian). Oslo: Grøndahl. p. 210.
- ^ a b "Gudmund Schnitler". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- ^ Schnitler 1895: p. VI
- ^ Schnitler 1895: p. VI
- ^ Schnitler 1895: p. VI
- ^ "Didrik Thomas Johannes Schnitler". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 6 July 2011.
- ^ Schnitler 1895: pp. VII-VIII
- ^ Schnitler 1895: p. VIII
- ^ Schnitler, Didrik (1895). Blade af Norges krigshistorie. Kristiania: Aschehoug.