Franz Bücheler
Academic
1837 – 1908
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:
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.
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- Born
- Jun 3, 1837
Rheinberg - Also known as
- Franz Bucheler
- Nationality
- German Empire
- Germany
- Education
- University of Bonn
- Died
- May 3, 1908
Bonn
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on July 23, 2013
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