Franz Bücheler
Franz Bücheler ( born June 3, 1837 in Rheinberg, † May 3, 1908 in Bonn ) was a German classical scholar.
Life
Franz Bücheler was the son of the magistrate Bücheler Anton and his wife Dorothea nee Hebert. After attending the elementary school and the Latin School of Kaplan Joseph Krumpe he went in the fall of 1848, the gymnasium to Essen, where he (aged 15 years ) passed his matriculation examination in the fall of 1852. Starting in the winter semester 1852/1853 he studied at the University of Bonn Classical Philology, Archaeology and Ancient History. In addition to Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker, Ludwig Schopen and Otto Jahn influenced him especially Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl, the famous textual critics and connoisseurs of Latin literature.
After graduation and a teaching qualification Bücheler worked as a research assistant teacher at the Royal Gymnasium in Bonn. In addition, he continued to pursue his academic career. On 1 March 1858 he completed his habilitation with a thesis on criticism and exegesis of the books Frontinus on the Roman aqueducts. On 21 October the same year he was appointed on the recommendation of his teacher Ritschl associate professor at the University of Freiburg im Breisgau.
In Freiburg he tried to set up the Philological Seminar by the Bonn model, but the resistance from colleagues and students, and difficulties in obtaining books inhibited him. He felt cramped in the small town of Baden after the years of the great University of Bonn. After all, he was appointed on 28 February 1862 and was appointed professor at the July 29, 1862 his fiancee Manuela Schleiden marry the daughter of a coal mine director. From this marriage two sons and four daughters were born, the oldest married the philologist Otto Hense.
Büche Jewellers Freiburg period ended with the winter semester 1865/1866, when he received the call from the University of Greifswald on 31 January 1866. Here he was to succeed his friend Usener, who had moved to Bonn.
1870 at the University of Bonn (as successor of Otto Jahn ). Already in 1865 he had been in the occupation of the new chair on the third place of the appointment list behind Hermann Bonitz and Friedrich Heimsoeth; reputation had then received and accepted Heimsoeth. So Bücheler succeeded his teacher Otto Jahn and his colleague study Usener friend, with whom he jointly led the Philological Seminar. In 1878 he was Associate Editor of Rhenish Museum of Philology. Both as an academic teacher and an editor of ancient writings, he was exceptionally successful.
Among his expenditures were:
- Frontini de Aquis urbis Romae (Leipzig, 1858)
- Pervigilium Veneris (Leipzig, 1859)
- Petronii satirarum reliquiae (Berlin, 1862; 3rd edition, 1882)
- Hymn Cereris Homericus (Leipzig, 1869)
- Q. Ciceronis reliquiae (1869 )
- Herondae mimiambi (Bonn, 1892).
He also wrote a floor plan of the Latin declension (1866 ); The law of Gortyn (Frankfurt, 1885, with Ernst Zitelmann ) and got the third edition ( 1893) of Otto Jahn's Persii, Juvenal, Sulpiciae saturae.
In Bonn - Kessenich today is named after Franz Bücheler a road. In the old cemetery Kessenicher he has also found his final resting place.
Pupil of Franz Bücheler included the archaeologist August Frick House, the historian Friedrich Philippi and the philologist John Geffcken and Eduard Norden.