Franz Bücheler
Franz Bücheler | |
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| Born | 3 June 1837 |
| Died | 3 May 1908 (aged 70) |
| 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
[edit]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
[edit]- ^ 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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