BUECHELER, FRANZ (1837-1908), German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg on June 3, 1837. He held pro fessorships successively at Freiburg (1858), Greifswald (1866), and Bonn (1870), and in 1878 became joint-editor of the Rhein isches Museum fur Philologie. Among his editions are : Frontini de aquis urbis Romae (Leipzig, 1858) ; Pervigilium Veneris (Leip zig, 1859) ; Petronii satirarum reliquiae (Berlin, 1862 ; 3rd ed., 1882) ; Hymnus Cerer;s Homericus (Leipzig, 1869) ; Q. Ciceronis reliquiae (1869) ; Herondae mimiambi (Bonn, 1892). He wrote also Grundriss der lateinischen Deklination (1866) ; Das Recht von Gortyn (Frankfurt, 1885, with Zitelmann) ; and supervised the third edition (1893) of O. Jahn's Persii, Juvenalis, Sulpiciae saturae.