Franz Bücheler

Who was Franz Bücheler?

Franz Bücheler was a German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at Bonn, where he was a student of Friedrich Ritschl.

In 1856 he graduated from the University of Bonn with a dissertation on linguistic studies of the Emperor Claudius. He held professorships successively at Freiburg, Greifswald, and Bonn. At Bonn, he worked closely with Hermann Usener.

Both as a teacher and as a commentator he was extremely successful. His research spanned the entirety of Greco-Roman antiquity, from poetry and sciences to the mundane aspects of everyday life. In 1878 he became joint-editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie.

Among his editions are:

Frontini de aquis urbis Romae

Pervigilium Veneris

Petronii satirarum reliquiae

Hymnus Cereris Homericus

Q. Ciceronis reliquiae

Herondae mimiambi.

He wrote also Grundriss der lateinischen Deklination; Des Recht von Gortyn; and supervised the third edition of Otto Jahn's Persii, Juvenalis, Sulpiciae saturae.