BÜCHLER, Pál. Bácstóváros (Tovariševo in Serbian Vojvodina) 25.1.1877 — Târgu Mureş 7.7.1946. Hungarian (of Transylvania) Philologist and Translator interested in Sanskrit. Ph.D. 1907 Budapest (diss. on Homer). In 1916/18 Oberlehrer in Marosvásárhely (now Târgu-Mureş) in Transylvania, in 1926/30 Professor at Commercial School in Târgu-Mureş, now in Romania. He translated parts of the Mānavadharmaśāstra in Hungarian and worked on the Tantrākhyāyika (never published, probably lost).
One Pál Büchler was the son of Rabbi Pinkász Büchler (1840–1917) and married with Lidia Libele Freund (1868–1944, 11 children), but he died in 1944.
Publications: Manu törvénykönyve. Mánava dharmasásztra. 262 p. Koloszvár 1916.
– Review of Hertel’s Das Pañcatantra, Egyetemes Philologiai Közlöny 42, 1918, 434-440.
– Wrote articles in the Hungarian lexicon of world literature in 1930.
Sources: Wojtilla 1977, 180; also briefly mentioned in Bethlenfalvy 1980, 20; (*)Magyar Életrajzi Lexikon 1978-1991; Puskás 1991; member-lists of D.M.G. 1916, 1918, 1926, 1930; *Hungarian Wikipedia.
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