Returning from World War I he studied Latin and German history in Leipzig.
From 1924 to 1945 he taught history in many Gymnasien and state high schools, in Leipzig, Waldenburg in Saxony and eventually in Dresden.
Through collaboration with Fritz Rörig he joined the team producing the Monumenta Germaniae Historica, where he concentrated on Early Medieval literary texts.
In 1958 appeared his editions of Gunzo's Epistola ad Augienses, and Anselm of Besate's, Rhetorimachia.
[3] Following his move to Bavaria in 1969 there finally appeared in Weimar his editions of Sextus Amarcius's Sermones, over which he had been labouring since 1955.