Education
He studied law, history and German literature at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich, obtaining his doctorate in 1883 with a dissertation on early medieval English church history.
He studied law, history and German literature at the universities of Heidelberg and Munich, obtaining his doctorate in 1883 with a dissertation on early medieval English church history.
In 1888 he began work as an assessor at the Generallandesarchiv Karlsruhe (General State Archives at Karlsruhe), where from 1906 to 1924 he served as its director From 1897 to 1927 he was on the editorial board of the Zeitschrift für die Geschichte des Oberrheins, a journal in which he was the author of numerous historical articles
Heidelberg Academy for Sciences and Humanities]
In 1888 he became a full member of the Baden Historical Commission.