Franz Bücheler
Franz Bücheler (
June 3,
1837 -
1908),
German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at
Bonn.
He held professorships successively at Freiburg (1858), Greifswald (1866), and Bonn (1870), and in 1878 became joint-editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. Both as a teacher and as a commentator he was extremely successful.
Among his editions are:
- Frontini de aquis urbis Romae (Leipzig, 1858)
- Pervigilium Veneris (Leipzig, 1859)
- Petronii satirarum reliquiae (Berlin, 1862; 3rd ed., 1882)
- Hymnus Cereris Homericus (Leipzig, 1869)
- Q. Ciceronis reliquiae (1869)
- Herondae mimiambi (Bonn, 1892).
He wrote also
Grundriss der lateinischen Deklination (1866);
Des Recht von Gortyn (Frankfort, 1885, with Zitelmann); and supervised the third edition (1893) of
O Jahn's
Persii, Juvenalis, Sulpiciae saturae.
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