From 1875 he studied at the universities of
Tübingen and
Greifswald, receiving his doctorate in 1879 as a student of
Ulrich von Wilamowitz-Moellendorff. After graduation, he took an extended study trip to Italy, Paris and London (1880–82),[1] and afterwards qualified as a lecturer in
Berlin with the
habilitation-thesis Analecta Eratosthenica. In 1886, he was named a professor at the University of Greifswald, and from 1895 to 1924, served as a professor and director of the philological seminary at the
University of Marburg. In 1910/11 he was
rector at the university.[2][3]
De Attali Rhodii fragmentis Arateis commentatio, 1888.
Scholia Graeca in Homeri Iliadem Townleyana (with
Wilhelm Dindorf, 1888).
Parerga Attica, 1889.
De Aeschyli Supplicibus commentatio, 1890.
De tribus Philetae carminibus, 1895.
Orpheus; Untersuchungen zur griechischen, römischen, altchristlichen Jenseitsdichtung und Religion, 1895 –
Orpheus: Investigations of Greek, Roman and early Christian afterlife literature and religion.
De Lenaeo et Delphinio commentatio, 1896.
Commentariorum in Aratum reliquiae, 1898.
Analecta sacra et profana, 1901.
Die Tagesgötter in Rom und den Provinzen, aus der Kultur des Niederganges der antiken Welt, 1902 – The Tagesgötter in Rome and the provinces.
Griechen und Semiten auf dem Isthmus von Korinth, 1903 – Greeks and Semites on the
Isthmus of Corinth.
Goethe und die antike, 1912 –
Goethe and antiquity.[4][5]