[1] In 1875, he was accepted at the Friedrich Wilhelm University of Berlin, where he studied for four years, except two semesters at Heidelberg and Leipzig.
[1][5] On 1 March 1880, he finally received his doctorate from the University of Berlin with the dissertation "Ueber Bewegungen starrer Punktsysteme in einer ebenen n-fachen Mannigfaltigkeit (On motions of rigid point systems in a plane n-fold manifold)".
Since initially he did not strive for a university career, he passed the necessary examination for the teaching profession in the subjects of mathematics, physics, philosophical propaedeutics and descriptive natural sciences.
After this, he began his pedagogical probationary year at the Friedrich Wilhelm Gymnasium in Berlin at Easter 1881.
During his pedagogical probationary year, Scheeffer realized that he would like to devote his creative energy to science after all.