Franz Xaver Kugler

Franz Xaver Kugler (27 November 1862 – 25 January 1929) was a German chemist, mathematician, Assyriologist, and Jesuit priest.

[1] Kugler was born in Königsbach, Palatinate, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.

Four years later at the age of 35, he became a professor of mathematics at Ignatius-College in Valkenburg in the Netherlands.

[1] He is most noted for his studies of cuneiform tablets and Babylonian astronomy.

However his full work on Babylonian astronomy was never completed, with only three volumes out of a planned five published.