Eduard Wölfflin (1 January 1831,

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– 8 November 1908, Basel) was a Swiss classical philologist. He was the father of art historian

Heinrich Wölfflin Heinrich Wölfflin (; 21 June 1864 – 19 July 1945) was a Swiss art historian, esthetician and educator, whose objective classifying principles (" painterly" vs. "linear" and the like) were influential in the development of formal analysis in ...

Career

From 1848 to 1854, he studied at the Universities of

and

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, where he was a pupil of

Karl Friedrich Hermann Karl Friedrich Hermann (4 August 1804 – 31 December 1855) was a German classical scholar and antiquary. Biography He was born at Frankfurt-am-Main. Having studied philosophy at the universities of Heidelberg and Leipzig (and taking a degree ...

. Following graduation, he worked as an assistant

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at the University of Basel (1854–61). He spent the next decade as schoolteacher in

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(1861–71), and in the meantime became an associate professor in Latin

philology Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as ...

(1869). In 1871 he attained a full professorship at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 ...

. From 1875 to 1880, he was a professor at the

University of Erlangen A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase ''universitas magistrorum et scholarium'', which ...

, and from 1880 to 1906, was a professor at the

University of Munich The Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (simply University of Munich or LMU; german: link=no, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) is a public research university in Munich, Bavaria, Germany. Originally established as the University of ...

. Wölfflin was a member of the

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Published works

He was a primary catalyst in the establishment of the ''

Thesaurus Linguae Latinae The ''Thesaurus Linguae Latinae'' (abbreviated as ''ThLL'' or ''TLL'') is a monumental dictionary of Latin founded on historical principles. It encompasses the Latin language from the time of its origin to the time of Isidore of Seville (died ...

'', a comprehensive dictionary of the

Latin language Latin (, or , ) is a classical language belonging to the Italic branch of the Indo-European languages. Latin was originally a dialect spoken in the lower Tiber area (then known as Latium) around present-day Rome, but through the power of ...

— a project that first got underway in 1894. He was also editor of the ''Archiv für lateinische Lexikographie und Grammatik'' (from 1884), a periodical that grown to 15 volumes at the time of Wölfflin's death in 1908. Other significant writings by Wölfflin include: * ''De Lucii Ampelii libro Memoriali quaestiones criticae et historicae'' (dissertation). Göttingen 1854. * ''Caecilii de Balbi nugis philosophorum quae sunt super'', Basel 1855. * ''Polyaeni libri octo strategicon'', Leipzig 1860. * ''Livianische Kritik und Livianischer Sprachgebrauch'', Berlin 1864 – Critical examination of

Livy Titus Livius (; 59 BC – AD 17), known in English as Livy ( ), was a Roman historian. He wrote a monumental history of Rome and the Roman people, titled , covering the period from the earliest legends of Rome before the traditional founding in ...

. * ''Publii Syri sententiae''. Leipzig 1869 * ''Antiochos von Syrakus und Coelius Antipater'', 1872 –

Antiochus of Syracuse Antiochus of Syracuse ( grc-gre, Ἀντίοχος ὁ Συρακούσιος) was a Greek historian, who flourished around 420 BC. Little is known of Antiochus' life, but his works, of which only fragments remain, enjoyed a high reputation because ...

and Lucius Coelius Antipater. * ''Lateinische und romanische Comparation'', 1878 – Latin and Roman comparation. * ''Zur Composition der Historien des Tacitus'', 1901 – Composition on the histories of

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published works

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Wolfflin, Eduard 1831 births 1908 deaths People from Basel-Stadt Swiss philologists University of Erlangen-Nuremberg faculty Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich faculty University of Zurich faculty University of Basel alumni University of Göttingen alumni