Bernhard Moritz Snethlage

Bernhard Moritz Snethlage (28 May 1753, Tecklenburg – 19 November 1840, Berlin) was a German educator.

[1] He studied theology, philosophy and other subjects at Duisburg and Utrecht, and for a period of time, worked as a private tutor in Arnhem and Amsterdam.

In 1779 he became a teacher of mathematics at the gymnasium in Hamm, where he subsequently attained the title of rector (1781).

In 1789 he succeeded Theodor Friedrich Stange as director of the Hamm gymnasium.

In 1826 he was succeeded at Joachimsthal by classical philologist August Meineke.