Friedrich Hultsch

Friedrich Otto Hultsch (22 July 1833, Dresden – 6 April 1906, Dresden) was a German classical philologist[1][2] and historian of mathematics in antiquity.

[3] After graduating from the Dresden Kreuzschule, Friedrich Hultsch studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig from 1851 to 1855.

After a probationary year at the Kreuzschule, he was employed in 1857 as a second Adjunkt at the Alte Nikolaischule in Leipzig.

Hultsch specialized in historical metrology and textual criticism concerning mathematical antiquity.

His most important works are: He wrote many articles on Greek mathematics in Pauly-Wissowa (e.g. Archimedes and Euclid).