Johann Hauler (9 October 1829 – 9 August 1888) was an Austrian

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and classical philologist born in Oberrimsingen, a district of Breisach, Germany. He was the father of

Edmund Hauler Edmund Hauler (17 November 1859, in Buda – 1 April 1941, in Vienna) was an Austrian classical philology, classical philologist born in Ofen to a Danube Swabian Germans, German family. His father, Johann Hauler (1829–1888) was also a classical ph ...

(1859–1941), a professor of classical philology at the University of Vienna. He studied classical and Romance philology at the University of Bonn under

Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl Friedrich Wilhelm Ritschl (6 April 1806 – 9 November 1876) was a German scholar best known for his studies of Plautus. Biography Ritschl was born in Großvargula, in present-day Thuringia. His family, in which culture and poverty were hereditar ...

(1806–1876) and

Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker (4 November 1784 – 17 December 1868) was a German classical philologist and archaeologist. Biography Welcker was born at Grünberg, Hesse-Darmstadt. Having studied classical philology at the University of Giessen ...

(1784–1868), then at the University of Freiburg with Theodor Bergk (1812–1881), and finally in Paris. After earning his doctorate in 1855 with the dissertation "''De Theocriti vita et carminibus''", he taught

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and ancient languages at the "German gymnasium" in Ofen. In 1860 he relocated to Vienna as ''Oberlehrer'' at the Theresianum, then held the same position at the ''Akademischen Gymnasium'' (from 1862). In 1877 he was appointed director of the ''Staatsgymnasiums Wien II'' (Vienna State Gymnasium II). In 1880 he became a member of the ''Mitglied des Landesschulrats für Niederösterreich''. He was the author of "''Lateinisches Übungsbuch''" (Latin Workbook), published in 32 editions up until 1938. It was edited and processed by a number of scholars, including his son, Edmund Hauler. He died on 9 August 1888 in

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. In 1934, the ''Haulerstraße'' in Alsergrund (9th district, Vienna) was named in his honor.

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