Eduard Wlfflin, who studied at the Universities of Basel and Gttingen from 1848 to 1854, worked as a librarian at the University of Basel following graduation before becoming a schoolteacher in Winterthur (the country's sixth largest city by population) and eventually a full 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. Following graduation, he worked as an assistant librarian at the University of Basel (185461). He spent the next decade as schoolteacher in Winterthur (186171), and in the meantime became an associate professor in Latin philology (1869). With over 110,000 residents it is the country's sixth-largest city by population, and is the ninth-largest agglomeration with about 140,000 inhabitants. In 1871 he attained a full professorship at the University of Zurich. 
