Karl Schenkl (Brno, 11 December 1827 – Graz, 20 September 1900) was an Austrian classical philologist.
Schenkl was co-founder in 1885 and president of the "Eranos Vindobonensis", a historical society associated with the University of Vienna's Institute for Classical Philology, Middle and Late Latin.
With Wilhelm von Hartel he founded, in 1879, the journal Wiener Studien, and he was publisher of the series Bibliotheca Teubneriana.
Schenkl edited Latin texts by the Church Fathers and others for the Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum (CSEL),[1] and published a number of important textbooks; his Griechisches Elementarbuch (1852) was used in Austrian schools for 70 years, and his students' dictionary of Ancient Greek was still in use in 2009.
[2] His interests also extended to Sanskrit, his lectures on which paved the way for the later foundation of the chair of comparative linguistics at Graz,[3] and fairytales; his 1864 article "Das Märchen von Schneewittchen und Shakespeare's Cymbeline" is one of the earliest studies of "Snow White".