Education
From 1904 to 1909, he studied classical and German philology at the Universities of Graz and Berlin, where he was influenced by the work of Germanist Gustav Roethe.
germanist philologist university professor
From 1904 to 1909, he studied classical and German philology at the Universities of Graz and Berlin, where he was influenced by the work of Germanist Gustav Roethe.
He specialized in research of German literature from the Middle Ages (folk songs and folk tales, study of dialects, etc). In 1918 he became an associate professor in Berlin, later relocating to Münster as a full professor of medieval Germanic studies (1924). In 1927 he succeeded Roethe as professor at the University of Berlin.
In 1932–1938, along with Edward Schröder, he was editor of the "Zeitschrift für deutsches Altertum und deutsche Literatur".
Prussian Academy of Sciences]
In 1932 he became a member of the Prussian Academy of Sciences.