Hugo Blümner
Hugo Blümner was a German classical archaeologist and philologist.Biography
Blümner studied with Otto Jahn in Bonn and wrote his doctoral thesis 1866 in Berlin on Lucian. He taught in the universities of Breslau and Königsberg, and after 1877 was professor in the University of Zürich. He is author and editor of many philological and archaeological works, of which the most important are: Die gewerbliche Thätigkeit der Völker des klassischen Altertums, Technologie und Terminologie der Gewerbe und Künste bei Griechen und Römern, Leben und Sitten der Griechen, Der Maximaltarif des Diokletian, with Theodor Mommsen and Pausaniæ Græciæ Descriptio. He revised Hermann's Griechische Privataltertümer as well.
Among Blümner's doctoral students was the literary scholar and Germanist Emil Ermatinger.
