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» There was also a Franz Xaver Kugler from Munich who invented a beer shandy drink called Radler. For other people named Franz Kugler, see Franz Kugler.Franz Xaver Kugler (27 November 186225 January 1929) was a German chemist, mathematician, Assyriologist, and Jesuit priest.

Kugler was born in Königsbach, Palatinate, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria. He earned a Ph.D. in chemistry in 1885, and the following year he entered the Jesuits. By 1893 he'd been ordained as a priest. Four years later at the age of 35, he became a professor of Mathematics at Ignatius-College in Valkenburg in the Netherlands.
   He is most noted for his studies of cuneiform tablets and Babylonian astronomy. He worked out the Babylonian theories on the Moon and planets, which were published in 1907. However his full work on Babylonian astronomy was never completed, with only three volumes out of a planned five published. He died in Lucerne, Switzerland.

Bibliography

  • Die Babylonische Mondrechnung, Freiburg im Breisgau, 1900.
  • Darlegungen und Thesen über altbabylonische Chronologie, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 22 (1909), 63-78 (*).
  • Zwei Kassitenkönige der Liste A, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 24 (1910), 173-178.
  • Chronologisches und Soziales aus der Zeit Lugalanda’s und Urukagina’s, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 25 (1911), 275-280.
  • Bemerkungen zur neuesten Königsliste, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 27 (1912), 242-245.
  • Contribution à la météorologie babylonienne, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 8 (1911), 107-130.

Honors

  • Kugler crater on the Moon is named for him.Further Information

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