Eduard Wlfflin studied at the Universities of Basel and Gottlingen, and then worked his way up to be a professor at the University of Zurich.
From 1848 to 1854, he studied at the Universities of Basel and Gottingen, where he was a pupil of Karl Friedrich Hermann. He spent the next decade as schoolteacher in Winterthur (186171), and in the meantime became an associate professor in Latin philology (1869). In 1871 he attained a full professorship at the University of Zurich. 
