Friedrich Wieseler

Friedrich Wieseler (19 October 1811, in Altencelle – 3 December 1892, in Göttingen) was a German classical archaeologist and philologist.

He studied classical philology at the University of Göttingen, where he was a disciple of Karl Otfried Müller (1797-1840).

Afterwards, he lived as a private scholar in Berlin, where he attended lectures by August Boeckh (1785-1867).

Wieseler was the author of well-regarded works on ancient Greek and Roman theatre, as well as papers involving figures from classical mythology.

In the field of archaeology, he continued Muller's Denkmäler der alten Kunst ("Monuments of ancient art").