Thebes, Egypt
He also edited the fragments of the speeches of Hypereides on behalf of Euxenippus and Lycophron (already published by Churchill Babington from a papyrus discovered in Thebes, Egypt, in 1847) and a Latin poem on rhetorical figures by an unknown author ("Incerti auctoris de figuris vel schematibus versus heroici", 1841), found by Jules Quicherat in manuscript in the Paris library. Schneidewin was also the founder of "Philologus" (1846), a journal devoted to classical learning, and dedicated to the memory of K. O. Müller.