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, where he was a student of

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(1806–1876).

Biography

In 1856, Bücheler graduated from the

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with a dissertation on linguistic studies of the

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. He held professorships successively at

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(associate professor in 1858, full professor in 1862),

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(from 1866), and

(1870 to 1906). At Bonn, he worked closely with

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(1834–1905). Both as a teacher and as a commentator, he was extremely successful. His research spanned the entirety of Greco-Roman antiquity, from poetry and sciences to the mundane aspects of everyday life. In 1878, he became joint-editor of the ''Rheinisches Museum für Philologie''. Among his editions are: *''Frontini de aquis urbis Romae'' (

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, 1858) *''Pervigilium Veneris'' (Leipzig, 1859) *''Petronii satirarum reliquiae'' (Berlin, 1862; 3rd ed., 1882) *''Grundriss der lateinischen Deklination'' (1866) *''Hymnus Cereris Homericus'' (Leipzig, 1869) *''Q. Ciceronis reliquiae'' (1869) *''Des Recht von Gortyn'' (Frankfort, 1885, with Ernst Zitelmann 1852-1923) *''Herondae mimiambi'' (Bonn, 1892) *''Petronii saturae et liber priapeorum'' (Berlin, 1904) He also supervised the third edition (1893) of

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's ''Persii, Juvenalis, Sulpiciae saturae''.List of publications copied from an equivalent article at the

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, but identical to Chisholm 1911.

References

1837 births 1908 deaths Scholars from the Kingdom of Prussia German classical scholars Academic staff of the University of Bonn Academic staff of the University of Greifswald Academic staff of the University of Freiburg German classical philologists Recipients of the Pour le Mérite (civil class) {{Germany-academic-bio-stub