He studied medicine and botany in Berlin, where in 1881 he received his medical doctorate. From 1882 to 1893 he served as a naval medical officer, and later spent several years as a physician to an infantry regiment. From 1904 to 1918, he gave lectures on
plant systematics and
phytogeography at the
University of Strasbourg, and afterwards, relocated to the
University of Rostock, where from 1921 to 1933, he was an associate professor of botany. From 1933 onward, he worked as a general practitioner in
Rostock. In 1942, he was wounded during a bombing attack in Rostock.[1]
Works
Flora von Rostock (1879, co-author Carl Fisch).
Pflanzengeographische Übersicht der Flora von Mecklenburg, Güstrow : Opitz, (1884).
Flora der Insel St. Vincent in der Cap verdengruppe, Leipzig : W. Engelmann (1891).
Mecklenburgische Flora. 1893. In
Jacob Sturm's Flora von Deutschland, second edition (1900–1907).
Florenkarte von Norddeutschland fur das 12. bis 15. Jahrhundert 231–35.
In Globus 72. Band, 1897 - Illustrierte Zeitschrift für Länder- und Völkerkunde.