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HUBNER (1834-1901)  , German classical scholar, son of the historical painter Julius Hubner (1806-1882), was born at Dusseldorf on the 7th of July 1834 . After studying at Berlin and Bonn, he travelled extensively with a view to antiquarian and epigraphical researches . The results of these travels were embodied in several important works: Inscriptions Hispaniae Latinae (1869, supplement 1892), I.H . Christianae (1871, supple- Grundriss zu Vorlesungen caber die romische Literaturgeschichte (4th ed . 1878, edited, with large additions, by J . E . B . Mayor as Bibliographical Clue to Latin Literature, 1875), and Bibliographie der classischen Altertumswissenschaft (2nd ed., 1889); mention may also be made of Romische Epigraphik (2nd ed., 1892); Exempla Scripturae Epigraphicae Latinae (1885); and Rdmische Herrschaft in Westeuropa (189o) . In 1870 Hubner was appointed professor of Classical Philology in the university of Berlin, where he died on the 21st of February 1901 .