| Edward Franklin Buchner | |
| Birth Date: | September 3, 1868 |
| Birth Place: | Paxton, Illinois, USA |
| Death Date: | August 22, 1929 |
| Death Place: | Munich, Germany |
| Alma Mater: | Leander Clark College Yale University |
| Occupation: | Academic |
| Spouse: | Hannah Louise Cable |
| Children: | 2 daughters, 2 sons |
Edward Franklin Buchner (1868–1929) was an American academic and scholar in education studies.
Edward Franklin Buchner was born on September 3, 1868, in Paxton, Illinois.[1] He attended Leander Clark College and graduated from Yale University, where he received a PhD in 1893.[1]
Buchner was Professor of Education at the University of Alabama from 1903 to 1908.[1] He became Professor of Education at Johns Hopkins University in 1908.[1] He wrote research in education studies.[2] In 1925, he helped create the master of education and doctor of education degrees at Johns Hopkins.[1]
He wrote A Study of Kant's Psychology in 1893 and translated Immanuel Kant's 1803 Lecture-Notes on Pedagogy and published them in 1908.[3]
Buchner served as the fourth president of the Southern Society for Philosophy and Psychology in 1911.[4]
Buchner married Hannah Louise Cable in 1898.[1] They had two sons, Edward F. Buchner, Jr. and Mallory Buchner, and two daughters, Elizabeth Sanford Buchner and Margaret Louise Buchner.[1]
He died of heart disease on August 22, 1929, in Munich, Germany.[1]