Rudolf Much

Rudolf Much
Born	(1862-09-07)7 September 1862 Vienna, Austrian Empire
Died	8 March 1936(1936-03-08) (aged 73) Vienna, Austria
Nationality	Austrian
Academic background
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Thesis	Zur Vorgeschichte Deutschlands (1887)
Academic advisors	Richard Heinzel
Academic work
Discipline	Classical philology Germanic philology
Institutions	University of Vienna
Notable students	Otto Höfler Julius Pokorny Walter Steinhauser Richard Wolfram Siegfried Gutenbrunner Dietrich Kralik Lily Weiser-Aall Gilbert Trathnigg Robert Stumpfl
Main interests	Germanic Antiquity
Notable works	Die Germania des Tacitus (1937)

Rudolf Much (7 September 1862 – 8 March 1936) was an Austrian philologist and historian who specialized in Germanic studies. Much was Professor and Chair of Germanic Linguistic History and Germanic Antiquity at the University of Vienna, during which he tutored generations of students and published a number of influential works, some of which have remained standard works up to the present day.