Ulrich Köhler

Ulrich Köhler Leopold ( born November 6, 1838 in Kleinneuhausen, † October 21, 1903 in Berlin) was a German historian and epigraphists.

1857 Koehler began studying in Jena and moved to Göttingen, where he received his doctorate in 1860 with a thesis Qua ratione T. Livii annalibus usi sint Historici Latini atque Graeci later. He was then a tutor in Pisa and since 1862 at the German Archaeological Institute in Rome worked. 1865 Kohler went to the Prussian embassy in Athens and edited from 1866 the Attic inscriptions for a new edition of the Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum. The issue finally appeared from 1877 to 1895 as Volume 2 ( Inscriptiones Atticae Aetatis quae est inter Euclidis annum et Augusti tempora ) the Inscriptiones Graecae; also issued by other Volumes 1 and 3 were based in substantial part on Kohler's transcripts.

Koehler went in 1872 as a professor at the newly founded University of Strasbourg, 1875 but returned to Athens as head of the recently founded department of the Athens Archaeological Institute. From 1886 he was Professor of Ancient History at the University of Berlin. His successor in Athens was Eugen Petersen.