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:
He also supervised the third edition of Otto Jahn's Persii, Juvenalis, Sulpiciae saturae.