Franz Bücheler (3 June 1837 – 3 May 1908) was a German classical scholar, was born in Rheinberg, and educated at Bonn, where he was a student of Friedrich Ritschl (1806–1876).

In 1856 Bücheler graduated from the University of Bonn with a dissertation on linguistic studies of the Emperor Claudius.

[1] At Bonn, he worked closely with Hermann Usener (1834–1905).

[1] His research spanned the entirety of Greco-Roman antiquity, from poetry and sciences to the mundane aspects of everyday life.

[2] In 1878 he became joint-editor of the Rheinisches Museum für Philologie.