Rudolf Schöll

Rudolf Schöll (1 September 1844, Weimar, Germany – 10 June 1893, Munich, Germany) was a German classical scholar. He specialized in the fields of Greek and Roman legal history, classical archaeology and Greek epigraphy.

He received his education at the University of Göttingen as a student of Hermann Sauppe and Ernst Curtius, followed by studies at the University of Bonn, where his instructors included Friedrich Ritschl and Otto Jahn. In 1865, he obtained his doctorate of philosophy. Later on, he worked in Italy and Greece (1867–1870), first as an aide to Theodor Mommsen in the development of inscriptions and manuscripts, afterward as a private secretary to Guido von Usedom, the Prussian ambassador to the Italian government in Florence.