Franz Bücheler was a German

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 classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg

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, and educated at Bonn

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.

He held professorships successively at Freiburg

University of Freiburg

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 (1858), Greifswald (1866), and Bonn

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 (1870), and in 1878 became joint-editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie. Both as a teacher and as a commentator he was extremely successful.

Among his editions are:

• Frontini de aquis urbis Romae (Leipzig, 1858)
• Pervigilium Veneris (Leipzig, 1859)
• Petronii satirarum reliquiae (Berlin, 1862; 3rd ed., 1882)
• Hymnus Cereris Homericus (Leipzig, 1869)
• Q. Ciceronis reliquiae (1869)
• Herondae mimiambi (Bonn, 1892).

He wrote also Grundriss der lateinischen Deklination (1866); Des Recht von Gortyn (Frankfort, 1885, with Zitelmann

Zitelmann

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); and supervised the third edition (1893) of O Jahn

Otto Jahn

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's Persii, Juvenalis, Sulpiciae saturae.