Franz Bücheler

Franz Bücheler
Franz Bücheler
Born	3 June 1837; Rheinberg
Died	3 May 1908 (aged 70); Bonn
Nationality	German Empire
Alma mater	University of Bonn
	Scientific career
Fields	Classical studies
Institutions	University of Freiburg; University of Greifswald; University of Bonn
Academic advisors	Friedrich Ritschl
Notable students	Hermann Fränkel; Friedrich Leo

Franz Bücheler (3 June 1837 – 3 May 1908) was a German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at Bonn, where he was a student of Friedrich Ritschl (1806–1876).

Biography

In 1856 Bücheler graduated from the University of Bonn with a dissertation on linguistic studies of the Emperor Claudius. He held professorships successively at Freiburg (associate professor in 1858, full professor in 1862), Greifswald (from 1866), and Bonn (1870 to 1906).^[1] At Bonn, he worked closely with Hermann Usener (1834–1905).

Both as a teacher and as a commentator he was extremely successful.^[1] His research spanned the entirety of Greco-Roman antiquity, from poetry and sciences to the mundane aspects of everyday life.^[2] In 1878 he became joint-editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie.^[1]

Among his editions are:

Frontini de aquis urbis Romae (Leipzig, 1858)
Pervigilium Veneris (Leipzig, 1859)
Petronii satirarum reliquiae (Berlin, 1862; 3rd ed., 1882)
Grundriss der lateinischen Deklination (1866)
Hymnus Cereris Homericus (Leipzig, 1869)
Q. Ciceronis reliquiae (1869)
Des Recht von Gortyn (Frankfort, 1885, with Ernst Zitelmann 1852-1923)
Herondae mimiambi (Bonn, 1892)
Petronii saturae et liber priapeorum (Berlin, 1904)

He also supervised the third edition (1893) of Otto Jahn's Persii, Juvenalis, Sulpiciae saturae.^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bücheler, Franz". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 718.
^ NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie Archived 2014-05-17 at the Wayback Machine
^ List of publications copied from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia, but identical to Chisholm 1911.

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[EB1911-1] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Bücheler, Franz". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 718.

[2] NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie Archived 2014-05-17 at the Wayback Machine

[3] List of publications copied from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia, but identical to Chisholm 1911.

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