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SCHMEIZEL (Martin), a German historical writer, was 
bom at Cronstadt in the year 1679. He was educated partly 
at Jena, and partly at Wittenberg and Griefs wald. In 1706 
he accompanied a young gentleman in the quality of tutor 
to Halle, and thence to Jena. In 1709 he undertook a tour 
to Denmark and Sweden. In the latter country he was en¬ 
trusted with the care of two young gentlemen, whom he car¬ 
ried with him to Jena, and in 1713 took them back to 
Sweden : on which occasion he was twice captured by 
Danish privateers, and conveyed to Copenhagen, but he 
soon obtained his liberty, and returned to Jena. After 
this he was appointed professor of philosophy in the aca¬ 
demy, and at the same time librarian. In 1731 he was 
invited to Halle, to be professor of jurisprudence and his¬ 
tory, with the honour of the title of counsellor of state to his 
Prussian majesty. He died in 1747. His works are numer¬ 
ous, and written partly in his native language, and partly 
in Latin : of these, the principal are as follow: “ Trac- 
tatus de Coronis tarn antiquis quam modernis;” “ De 
Clenodiis et Ritu inaugurandi Reges Hungari®;” “ Pr®- 
cognila Hist. Ecclesiastic®“ Catalogus Scriptorum qui 
Res Hungari® Transilvani®, &c., illustrant et in Bibliotheca 
Martini Schmeizelii servantur.” » 
SCHMELZ, a small river in East Prussia, which falls into 
the Curische Haff, at a place called also Schmelz. 
SCHMERBLOCK, a large village of West Prussia, near 
Dantzic, on the Vistula, inhabited by the descendants of 
Dutch settlers. 
SCHM1DEFELD, a small town of Prussian Saxony, in 
the Ilenneberg; 8 miles north of Schleassingen. Population 
1100 . 
SCHMIDELIA [so named by Linnsus, in honour of 
Casimir Christopher Schmidel, professor of botany, at Erlang, 
author of leones et Analyses Plantarum, 1747 and 1763, 
and various dissertations], in Botany, a genus of the class 
octandria, order digynia, natural order of sapindi (Juss.) 
—Generic Character. Calyx : perianth two-leaved ; leaflets 
roundish, coloured, permanent. Corolla: petals four, 
roundish, sessile, erect. Stamina: filaments eight, simple, 
length of the flower. Anthers roundish. Pistil: germs 
two, pedicelled, compressed, longer than the flower. Styles 
filiform, bifid at the top. Stigmas simple. Pericarp: ber¬ 
ries two, subglobular. Seeds solitary.— Essential Charac¬ 
ter. Calyx two-leaved. Corolla four petalled. Germs pe¬ 
dicelled, longer than the flower. 
Schmidel ia racemosa.—This is a tree in appearance re¬ 
sembling Rhus trifoliata, with flexuose branches, as in 
Rhus Toxicodendron. Leaves alternate, ternate: leaflets 
petioled, ovate-oblong, acuminate, subserrate, naked. Com¬ 
mon petioles round. Racemes axillary, simple. Berry 
superior, oblong, smooth, black. Seed single, ovate, large, 
adhering all round to the pulp of the berry. It differs from 
Rhus in having the seed erect, and the radicle of the em¬ 
bryo not bent in.—Native of the East Indies. 
SCHMIDT (Erasmus), was born in 1560, in Misnia, 
and studied at Wittemberg, where he afterjvards became 
professor, first of the Greek, and then of the mathematics. 
He died in 1637, leaving behind him a Greek grammar, a 
treatise on the Greek dialects, and several Latin orations. 
He gave new editions, with translations and commentaries,"of 
Hesiod, Pindar, Lycophron, &c.: he also published a Greek 
and Latin concordance of the New Testament. 
SCHMIEDEBERG, a town of Prussian Silesia, among 
the Riesengebirge mountains. It is a straggling place, 
about two miles in length. Most of the inhabitants are 
linen weavers, and the traffic in that commodity is very im¬ 
portant for so small a town. Its position between lofty 
■mountains, without a fit channel to carry off the redundant 
waters after thaws or heavy falls of rain, renders it sub¬ 
ject to dangerous inundations; and in 1810, a great injury 
took place from that cause. Population 3800; 22 miles 
south-south-west of Jauer, and 56 west-south-west of 
Breslau. 
SCHMIEDEBERG, a large village of Prussian Saxony, 
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at the confluence of the Elbe and the Mulda. Population 
1500. 
SCHMIEDEBERG, a large village of the north-west of 
Bohemia, in the circle of Saatz, near Weipert, on the bor¬ 
ders of Saxony. Population 1300. 
SCHMIEGEL, a small town of Prussian Poland; 17 miles 
north-north-east of Fraustadt, and 42 south-south-west of 
Posen. Population 2200, chiefly Lutherans. 
SCHMITH (Nicholas), a writer in history, was a na¬ 
tive of Oldenburg, in Hungary. He entered early into 
the Society of the Jesuits, and taught the belles-lettres and 
theology in the schools of his order with great reputation. 
He died in 1767. As an author, his chief works are, 
“ Series Archiepiscoporum Strigonensium,” 2 vols. 8vo.; 
“ Episcopi Agriensis, fide diplonratica concinpati;” “ Im- 
peratores Ottomannici a capta Constantinopoli, cum 
Epitome Principum Turcarum ad annum 1718,” 2 vols. 
fob These works, especially the history of the Ottoman 
emperors, are said to abound in erudition, and to be com¬ 
posed in a pure and elegant style. 
SCHMOGRA, or Smoger, a village of Prussian Silesia, 
31 miles east of Breslau. Though now a small place, it ap¬ 
pears to have been of some importance in former times; the 
first Christian church in Silesia having been erected here in 
966. It was then also constituted a bishop’s see; but that 
honour was long since transferred to Breslau. 
SCHMOLLEN, a small town of the interior of Germany, 
in the principality of Altenburg. Population 2700; 57 miles 
west of Dresden. 
SCHMOLNITZ, or Szomolnok, a small town in the 
north of Hungary, situated in a valley among the Carpa¬ 
thians. It is the chief town of one of the four mining dis¬ 
tricts of Hungary, and has a mint for coining copper money. 
In the neighbourhood are rich mines of silver, copper, iron, 
and sulphur. Population 5500, partly Catholic, and partly 
Lutheran; 114 miles north-north-east of Pest, and 22 west 
of Caschau. 
SCHMUTTER, a small river of the Bavarian states, which 
falls into the Danube, at Ingolstadt. 
SCHNACKENBURG, a small town of Hanover, in the 
principality of Luneburg, on the Elbe; 72 miles west-south¬ 
west of Hamburgh. Population 800. 
SCHNAIDT, a large village of the west of Germany, in 
Wirfemberg, near Schorndorf. Population 1600. 
SCHNAIDTHEIM, a large village of the west of Ger¬ 
many, in Wirfemberg, department of the Kocher, near 
Heidenheim. Population 1000. 
SCHNAITACH, a small town in the west of Germany, 
in Bavaria. It has 1000 inhabitants, partly Jews; 10 miles 
east-north-east of Nuremberg. 
SCHNECKENSTE1N, a low insulated hill of Germany, 
in Saxony, in the Vogtland. It is remarkable for the stra¬ 
tified disposition of the rock which composes it, and for the 
topazes contained in it, which are found by making excava¬ 
tions with gunpowder. 
SCHNEEBERG, a town of Saxony, 53 miles west-south¬ 
west of Dresden, and 7 west-north-west of Schwarzenberg. 
It contains 4400 inhabitants, has several public schools, and 
some manufactures, of which that of smalts is the largest in 
Saxony. The others are on a small scale, and chiefly of 
articles connected with the neighbouring mines. The quan¬ 
tity of gold extracted from these is said to have been consi¬ 
derable in former ages. At present it is small; and the 
chief products of the mines are silver, cobalt, bismuth, iron, 
along with some tin and lead. Lat. 50. 48. 25. N. long. 12. 
31. E. 
SCHNEEBERG, a petty town of Bavarian Franconia, 
near Amorbach. Population 800. 
SCHNEEBERG, a lofty mountain of Lower Austria, 
which forms part of the boundary of the circles adjacent to" 
< the Wienerwald. The elevation of the highest point is 6700 
feet. 
SCHNEEBERG, or Snesnik, a lofty mountain of Aus¬ 
trian Illyria, connected with the Julian Alps. 
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