Heinrich Breitinger

Heinrich Breitinger (11 March 1832, in Ellikon an der Thur – 2 March 1889, in Zürich) was a Swiss literary historian and philologist.

He studied medicine in Munich and Zürich, but due to a hand injury as the result of a duel, he was forced to leave the medical field.

[1] He then studied modern languages at Zürich, Basel and Lausanne, and from 1857 taught French and English classes at the cantonal school in Frauenfeld.

From 1876 until his death, he was a full professor of modern languages at the University of Zürich.

[2] He was also the author of a few biographies in the Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie.