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EMIL HUBNER (1834-1901)
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HUBNER, EMIL (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.