DUBNER, JOHANN FRIEDRICH Ger man classical scholar (naturalized a Frenchman), was born in Horselgau, near Gotha. In 1832 he was invited by the brothers Didot to Paris, to co-operate in a new edition of H. Etienne's Greek Thesaurus, and edited many volumes in Didot's Biblio theca Graeca. He received the Legion of Honour for his edition of Caesar, undertaken by command of Napoleon III. His editions did much to raise the standard of classical scholarship in France. He violently attacked Burnout's method of teaching Greek, but without result. Diibner may have gone too far in his zeal for reform, but time has shown him to be right. The old text-books have been discarded, and a great improvement in classical teach ing has taken place.
See F. Godefroy, Notice sur J. J. Diibner (1867) ; Sainte-Beuve, Discours a la memoire de Diibner (1868) ; article in Allgemeine deutsche Biographie.