Wilhelm Wackernagel
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Swiss philologist
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Wilhelm Wackernagel's Degrees
- PhD Philology University of Basel
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Wilhelm Wackernagel was a German-Swiss philologist specializing in Germanic studies. He was the father of Indo-Europeanist Jacob Wackernagel. He studied Classical and Germanic literature at the University of Berlin as a pupil of August Boeckh and Karl Lachmann. In 1833 he moved to Basel, where from 1835 to 1869, he was a professor of German language and literature at the university. While at Basel, he turned down offers for professorships in Berlin, Munich, Tübingen and Vienna.
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