He studied medicine at the Universities of
Kiel,
Breslau and
Tübingen, earning his doctorate in 1863. Afterwards he was a lecturer in
Kiel, where in 1869 he became an associate professor and head of its medical clinic. In 1873, he became a full professor of general
therapy and director of the local policlinic at
Tübingen, a position he maintained until his death in 1907.
Klinische Studien über die Behandlung des Abdominaltyphus mittels des kalten Wassers (Studies on the treatment of abdominal
typhus using cold water); (1866)
Die Körperwärme des gesunden Menschen (
Body temperature of healthy persons); (1873)
Kruppöse Pneumonie Katarrhalpneumonie, in
Hugo Wilhelm von Ziemssen's "Handbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie", (1874)
Antiphlogistische Heilmethoden, Blutentziehungen Transfusion, in Ziemssen's "Handbuch der allgemeinen Therapie", (1880)
Kruppöse Pneumonie: Beobachtungen aus der Tübinger Poliklinik (
Croupouspneumonia: Observations from the Tübingen Polyclinic); (1883)
Mitteilungen aus der Tübinger Poliklinik, (1886)
Lehrbuch der speciellen Pathologie und Therapie (Textbook of special pathology and therapy); (1893)
Erkrankungen der Kreislaufsorgane, Insufficienz, Schwäche, des Herzens (Diseases of the circulatory organs: Insufficiency, weakness of the heart); (1899)