He studied at the universities of Jena, Berlin and Bonn,[1] obtaining his habilitation in 1866 at the University of Heidelberg. Later on, he worked as a professor at the universities of Freiburg, Prague (from 1874) and Strasbourg (from 1877).[2] Beginning in 1883, with Wilhelm Wiegand, he was editor of the journal "Strassburger studien; Zeitschrift für geschichte, sprache und litteratur des Elsasses".[3]
Selected works
Bermerkungen zur Kudrun, 1867 – Remarks about Kudrun.
Goethe in Strassburg, 1871 – Goethe in Strassburg.
Das niederländische Volksbuch Reynaert de Vos, 1876 – The Dutch chapbook involving Reinaert de Vos.
Hermann von Sachsenheim, 1878 – On German poet Hermann von Sachsenheim (died 1458).
Elsässische litteraturdenkmäler aus dem XIV-XVII. Jahrhundert (with Erich Schmidt), 1878 – Alsatian literature monuments from the 14th to 17th centuries.
Geschichte der deutschen litteratur, (new edition of Wilhelm Wackernagel's history of German literature, 1879–94).
Der Goethehügel bei Sesenheim, 1880 – The Goethehügel at Sessenheim.