The following year, he obtained a scholarship to study modern and contemporary history in Germany, but was unable to benefit from this due to the disease that would soon claim his life.
Several of these studies appeared in book form: Bibliografia cestiunii Orientului, 1899; Cronicarii moldoveni din secolul al XVII-lea, 1899; Istoria României contimporane.
[1] In the latter book, he attacked the opinions of critic Pompiliu Eliade, ridiculing his notion that the form of Mihai Eminescu's poetry marked a "considerable regression" from that of Vasile Alecsandri.
The author also took aim at Eliade's critical methodology, characterizing it as "strikingly similar" to what Jean-François de La Harpe was doing in the late 18th century, and noting that this approach had long been abandoned even in France.
[2] Together with Ioan Bianu, he prepared a Romanian edition of a book by Alexandre Maurice Blanc de Lanautte, Comte d'Hauterive; this appeared in 1902 as Memoriu asupra vechei și actualei stări a Moldovei prezentat lui Alexandru Vodă Ipsilante la 1787.