Franz Bücheler
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Franz Bücheler (3 June 1837Template:Snd3 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).
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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).<ref name=EB1911>{{#if: |
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}}{{#ifeq: ||}}</ref> At Bonn, he worked closely with Hermann Usener (1834–1905).
Both as a teacher and as a commentator, he was extremely successful.<ref name=EB1911/> His research spanned the entirety of Greco-Roman antiquity, from poetry and sciences to the mundane aspects of everyday life.<ref>NDB/ADB Deutsche Biographie Template:Webarchive</ref> In 1878, he became joint-editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie.<ref name=EB1911/>
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.<ref>List of publications copied from an equivalent article at the German Wikipedia, but identical to Chisholm 1911.</ref>