Background
Kugler was born in Königsbach, Palatinate, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.
Astronomer chemist historian mathematician priest
Kugler was born in Königsbach, Palatinate, then part of the Kingdom of Bavaria.
He earned a Doctor of Philosophy in chemistry in 1885, and the following year he entered the Jesuits. However his full work on Babylonian astronomy was never completed, with only three volumes out of a planned five published.
Foreign other people named Franz Kugler, see Franz Kugler. By 1893 he had 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. He died in Lucerne, Switzerland.
Darlegungen und Thesen über altbabylonische Chronologie, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 22 (1909), pp. 63–78 (*). GUR, masihu sa sattuk, KA, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 23 (1909), pp.
267–273 Im Bannkreis Babels: panbabylonistische Konstruktionen und religionsgeschichtliche Tatsachen.
Münster: Aschendorff (1910). 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.
Contribution à la météorologie babylonienne, Revue d’assyriologie et d’archéologie orientale, 8 (1911), 107-130.
Bemerkungen zur neuesten Königsliste, Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und verwandte Gebiete, 27 (1912), 242-245. Von Moses bis Paulus: Forschungen zur Geschichte Israels.
Münster: Aschendorff, (1922). Sibyllinischer Sternkampf und Phaëthon in naturgeschichtlicher Beleuchtung Münster in Westfalen: Aschendorff (1927).