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He spent his life chiefly at Göttingen , where he first studied philology under Theodor Benfey ; became a teacher in the Gymnasium, and eventually in 1876 professor of Comparative Philology in the university; in 1887 accepted a professorship in Breslau, but retired four years later; author of a variety of learned works on philology.


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He wrote the first comparative dictionary of Indo-European languages.