Education
He studied philology at the University of Halle, receiving his doctorate at Erfurt in 1808.
He studied philology at the University of Halle, receiving his doctorate at Erfurt in 1808.
From 1810 onward, he worked as a senior instructor at the Collegium Fridericianum in Königsberg. From 1817 to 1857 he was a professor at the Joachimsthal Gymnasium in Berlin under the directorships of Bernhard Moritz Snethlage and August Meineke.