Auguste Scheler

Jean Auguste Ulric Scheler (1819–1890), also styled Auguste Scheler[1] was a Belgian philologist. He was born at Ebnat, Switzerland. His father, a German, was chaplain to King Leopold I of Belgium, and Jean Scheler, after studying at Bonn and Munich, became King's librarian, and professor at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (ULB). His investigations in Romance philology earned him a wide reputation. He died at Ixelles, Belgium, in 1890.