"[6] As a professor he constantly attempted " to bring Classical Philology and the Science of Language into closer relation with each other."

The more important of his publications are: The last two works were translated into English by Augustus Samuel Wilkins and Edwin Bourdieu England.

In his last work, Zur Kritik der neuesten Sprachforschung (1885), he attacked the views of the emerging Neogrammarian school of philology.

[4][1] Curtius died in Hermsdorf am Kynast, aged 65, and was succeeded at Leipzig by his student[7]Karl Brugmann.

The Opuscula of Georg Curtius were edited after his death by Ernst Windisch (Kleine Schriften von E. C., 1886–1887).