The Encyclopedia Americana (1920)/Schoenfeld, Hermann

SCHOENFELD, schėn'fĕlt, Hermann, professor and author: b. Oppeln, Germany, 21 Jan. 1861. He was educated in the universities of Berlin, Breslau and Leipzig, and in 1888 accepted a call as instructor in modern languages at Providence, R. I., and later at New Bedford, Mass. In 1891 he was appointed to Johns Hopkins University; in 1893 sent by President Cleveland as consul at Riga, Russia, and delegated by the United States Bureau of Education to investigate higher education in Russian, Austrian and Prussian Poland. Since October 1894 he has been professor of Germanics at Columbian (now George Washington) University. Dr. Schoenfeld is a contributor to many German and American magazines and encyclopedias, including The Encyclopedia Americana. He has published ‘Brant and Erasmus’ (1892); ‘Erasmus and Rabelias’ (1893); ‘Higher Education in Poland’ (1896); ‘German Historical Prose’ (1896); ‘Leopold von Ranke’ (1899); ‘Treitschke’; he edited Schiller's ‘Maria Stuart’ (1899) and ‘Wilhelm Tell’ (1902); Bismarck's ‘Orations and Letters’ (1905); ‘History of Teutonic Women, and Slavic Women’ (1906); ‘Essays on Universal Peace and German Armaments’ (1913); ‘Causes of the European Conflagration’ (1914-15). Since 1914 he has also contributed extensively to journalistic literature on contemporaneous European history, especially of the Slavs and the Near East.