Education
He studied Classical and Germanic literature at the University of Berlin as a pupil of August Boeckh and Karl Lachmann.
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He studied Classical and Germanic literature at the University of Berlin as a pupil of August Boeckh and Karl Lachmann.
He was the father of Indo-Europeanist Jacob Wackernagel. 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.