[Jean Auguste Ulric]. Belgian philologist, born at Ebnat, Switzerland, in 1819. His father, a German, was chaplain to King Léopold I. of Belgium, and Jean Scheler, after studying at Bonn and Munich, became Kings librarian and professor at the Brussels Free University. His investigations in Romance philology earned him a wide reputation. He died at Ixelles, Belgium, in 1890.
The most important of his numerous philological works are the following: Mémoire sur la conjugaison française considérée sous le rapport étymologique (Brussels, 1847), Dictionnaire détymologie française daprès les résultats de la science moderne (Brussels, 1862), Étude sur la transformation française des mots latins (Ghent, 1869). He also edited the fourth edition of Diezs Etymologisches Wörterbuch der romanischen Sprachen (Bonn, 1878), and completed Grandgagnages Dictionnaire étymologique de la langue wallonne (Louvain, 1880). He also published several critical editions of middle ages texts, including one of Les Poésies de Froissart (Brussels, 18701872), and a monograph Sur le séjour de lapôtre saint Pierre à Rome (Brussels, 1845), which was translated into German and English.