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

  1. ^ a b c  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domainChisholm, 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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