Darwin Correspondence Project

German teacher, historian, and geographer. Studied philology at Halle, Greifswald, and Berlin. Received his doctorate from Halle, 1858. Taught in various schools until 1860; keeper at the university library at Greifswald, 1860–6. Lecturer, then professor and senior teacher at the Luisenstadt Oberrealschule until at least 1897. Wrote on prehistoric culture and the customs of the people of European lake-dwellings.