About Franz Bücheler
Lived 1837 – 1908 (aged 70). Franz Bücheler was a German classical philologist and university teacher.
Franz Bücheler (3 June 18373 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 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). At Bonn, he worked closely with Hermann Usener (1834–1905).
Both as a teacher and as a commentator, he was extremely successful. In 1878, he became joint-editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie.
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German classical philologist (1837-1908)
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Franz Bücheler was born on 3 June 1837 in Rheinberg.
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Franz Bücheler died on 3 May 1908 in Bonn.
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Franz Bücheler was a classical philologist and university teacher.
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