August Buchner

August Buchner
Buchner, engraving by Johann Jacob Haid
Born(1591-11-02)2 November 1591
Dresden
Died12 February 1661(1661-02-12) (aged 69)
Apollensdorf
Education
Occupations
  • Philologist
  • Poet
  • Professor of poetry
  • Professor of rhetoric
  • University director

August Buchner (2 November 1591 – 12 February 1661) was a German philologist, poet and literary scholar, an influential professor of poetry and rhetoric at the University of Wittenberg.

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