Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler (September 12, 1815 – March 31, 1894) was a Swiss

philologist 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 th ...

born in

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in the canton of Zürich. From 1835 to 1838 he received his education at the

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, where he had as instructors,

Johann Caspar von Orelli Johann Caspar von Orelli (Latin ''Iohannes Caspar Orellius''; 13 February 1787 – 6 January 1849), was a Swiss classical scholar. Life He was born at Zürich of a distinguished Italian family which had taken refuge in Switzerland at the tim ...

, Hermann Sauppe and Bernhard Hirzel. In 1838 he continued his studies in Berlin, afterwards returning to

Zürich , neighboring_municipalities = Adliswil, Dübendorf, Fällanden, Kilchberg, Maur, Oberengstringen, Opfikon, Regensdorf, Rümlang, Schlieren, Stallikon, Uitikon, Urdorf, Wallisellen, Zollikon , twintowns = Kunming, San Francisco Zürich ...

, where in 1841 he received his habilitation. Later, he taught classes in secondary schools in Aarau (1844–45) and Zürich (from 1845). In 1849 he became an associate professor at Zürich, and in 1864 was appointed a full professor of philology. In this position he specialized in

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and comparative linguistics. Among his literary works was an 1871 edition of

Tacitus Publius Cornelius Tacitus, known simply as Tacitus ( , ; – ), was a Roman historian and politician. Tacitus is widely regarded as one of the greatest Roman historians by modern scholars. The surviving portions of his two major works—the ...

' '' Germania'', and two textbooks on 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 t ...

: * ''Elementar- und Formenlehre der lateinischen Sprache'' ("Elemental and morphology of the Latin language"); (1869, second edition in 1888 with Alfred Surber). * ''Grammatik der lateinischen Sprache'' ("Grammar of the Latin language"); (1888).

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''Heinrich Schweizer-Sidler''
translated biography @ Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie Academic staff of the University of Zurich 1815 births 1894 deaths Swiss philologists People from Winterthur District {{switzerland-academic-bio-stub