German educator, born at Weiburg, Germany, on the 23rd of October 1834; studied at Bonn, Heidelberg, Göttingen and Munich; after short terms as a gymnasium teacher in Berlin (1858), and professor at Bern (1861) and Griefswald (1863), he was made professor of the Greek language and literature at Bonn (1866). Among his most esteemed works are Analecta Theophrastea (1858); Scholia in Lucanum (1869); Ein Beitrag zur Geschichte Roms in Ostgothischer Zeit (1877); Legenden der heiligen Pelagia (1879); Epicurea (1887); Religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchungen (1889); Unser Platotext (1892). He edited Kayser’s Homerische Abhandlungen (1881).
