Edmund Buchner is a German

Germans

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 ancient historian and former President of the German Archaeological Institute

German Archaeological Institute

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 (Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, or DAI).

He graduated in 1953 in Erlangen

Erlangen

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, with a thesis on the Panegyrikos

Panegyric

A panegyric is a formal public speech, or written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and discriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical. It is derived from the Greek πανηγυρικός meaning "a speech fit for a general assembly"...

 of Isocrates

Isocrates

Isocrates , an ancient Greek rhetorician, was one of the ten Attic orators. In his time, he was probably the most influential rhetorician in Greece and made many contributions to rhetoric and education through his teaching and written works....

 and then became assistant to the newly appointed to Erlangen Helmut Berve. As Berve was Director of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy (Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, or AEK) in Munich from 1960, Buchner followed him as a research assistant From 1969 until 1979, Buchner was a professor and director of the AEK, which belonged to what is now the DAI, and from 1980 to 1988 the DAI's president.

Buchner is known primarily for his research on the solarium Augusti

Solarium Augusti

The Solarium Augusti was a sundial in ancient Rome, the largest of the ancient era. It was erected by Emperor Augustus, with a 30-metre Egyptian red granite obelisk that he had imported from Heliopolis...

, the sundial

Sundial

A sundial is a device that measures time by the position of the Sun. In common designs such as the horizontal sundial, the sun casts a shadow from its style onto a surface marked with lines indicating the hours of the day. The style is the time-telling edge of the gnomon, often a thin rod or a...

 erected by the Roman emperor Augustus

Augustus

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 on the Field of Mars

Field of Mars

The Field of Mars was an area of the ancient city of Rome, the Campus Martius.Field of Mars may also refer to:*Field of Mars , An large public greenplace in Paris...

 in Rome

Rome

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Works

• Der Panegyrikos des Isokrates. Eine historisch-philologische Untersuchung. Steiner, Wiesbaden 1958.
• Die Sonnenuhr des Augustus. Zabern, Mainz 1982, ISBN 3-8053-0430-7.
• Neues zur Sonnenuhr des Augustus. In: Nürnberger Blätter zur Archäologie, Heft 10 (1993/94), S. 77–84.
• Ein Kanal für Obelisken. Neues vom Mausoleum des Augustus in Rom. In: Antike Welt 27 (1996), H. 3, S. 161–168.