Background
He was born at Erfurt in Saxony.
philologist teacher university professor
He was born at Erfurt in Saxony.
In early life he went to Berlin, where he studied under Karl Lachmann, Franz Bopp and August Böckh, and from there to Bonn where he was a close student of the methods of Friedrich Gottlieb Welcker and Friedrich Ritschl.
Having received his degree in Berlin and traveled for a year through Italy, in 1853 he returned to Berlin, where he entered Böckh"s school. He then taught at Elberfeld and Bern. Having held professorial appointments at Kiel and Heidelberg, he succeeded Ritschl in the chair of classical philology at Leipzig, where he died.
Prussian Academy of Sciences. Saxonian Academy of Sciences. Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities.
Hellenic Philological Society of Constantinople.
Russian Academy of Sciences.