Background
He was born and educated in Frankfurt am Main.
historian philologist university professor
He was born and educated in Frankfurt am Main.
Besides his editions of Varro"s Satiræ Menippeae (1865), of the Anthologia Latina (1869. Second edition, 1894), of Ovid (3 parts, 1871-1874), of the Historia Apollonii Regis Tyri (1871, second edition, 1893), of Catullus (1884, "Die Gedichte des Catullus"), and of Phaedrus (1885), he published a suggestive essay, Idealisierung der Naturvölker des Nordens in den griechischen und römischen Litteraturen (1875), and two monographs on early German history, Das Rheinische Germanien in der antiken Litteratur (1892) and Das Rheinische Germanien in den antiken Inschriften (1914).