Friedrich Hultsch
Friedrich Otto Hultsch (22 July 1833, Dresden – 6 April 1906, Dresden) was a German classical philologist and historian of mathematics in antiquity. Biography. After graduating from the Dresden "Kreuzschule", Friedrich Hultsch studied classical philology at the University of Leipzig from 1851 to 1855. After a probationary year at the "Kreuzschule", he was employed in 1857 as a second "Adjunkt" at the "Alte Nikolaischule" in Leipzig. In 1858 he became a teacher at the Zwickau "Gymnasium". In 1861 Hultsch was again employed at the "Kreuzschule", where he was the rector from 1868 until his retirement in 1889. From 1879  to 1882 he also headed the newly founded "Wettiner Gymnasium". Hultsch specialized in historical metrology and textual criticism concerning mathematical antiquity. His most important works are: He wrote many articles on Greek mathematics in Pauly-Wissowa ("e.g." Archimedes and Euclid). Hultsch died in 1906 in Dresden and was buried in the "Trinitatisfriedhof". He was elected a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences of Leipzig (1885) and a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities.