Franz Bücheler
Franz Bücheler was a German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at Bonn, where he was a student of Friedrich Ritschl.
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, Greifswald, and Bonn. At Bonn, he worked closely with Hermann Usener.Both as a teacher and as a commentator, he was extremely successful. His research spanned the entirety of Greco-Roman antiquity, from poetry and sciences to the mundane aspects of everyday life. In 1878, he became joint-editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie.
Among his editions are:
- Frontini de aquis urbis Romae
- Pervigilium Veneris
- Petronii satirarum reliquiae
- Grundriss der lateinischen Deklination
- Hymnus Cereris Homericus
- Q. Ciceronis reliquiae
- Des Recht von Gortyn
- Herondae mimiambi
- Petronii saturae et liber priapeorum