Background
Edward Franklin Buchner was born on September 3, 1868 in Paxton, Illinois.
Edward Franklin Buchner was born on September 3, 1868 in Paxton, Illinois.
He attended Leander Clark College and graduated from Yale University, where he received a Doctor of Philosophy in 1893.
Buchner was Professor of Education at the University of Alabama from 1903 to 1908. He became Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University in 1908. He wrote research in education studies.
In 1925, he helped create the master of education and doctor of education degrees at Johns Hopkins.
Buchner served as the fourth president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 1911. He died of heart disease on August 22, 1929 in Munich, Germany.