Education
He studied in Berlin and at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Heinrich Brunn (1822–1894).
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He studied in Berlin and at the University of Munich, where he was a student of Heinrich Brunn (1822–1894).
He specialized in studies of Greek Antiquity, and is remembered for his topographical research of ancient Attica. Subsequently, he became an assistant to Ernst Curtius (1814–1896) in Berlin, and in 1883 was habilitated for archaeology at the University of Göttingen. Later on, he was an associate professor at the University of Münster, where he was also in charge of the library of classical archaeology.
In 1895 he became a professor of archaeology at the University of Kiel.
German Archaeological Institute.