sentences:  In Berlin, Comfort was influenced by meetings and studies with the philosopher Friedrich Kaulbach, Carl Richard Lepsius (curator of Egyptology at the Berlin Museum), Gemäldegalerie director Gustav Waagen, Leopold von Ranke, among others.From 1865 to 1868, he served as professor of languages at Allegheny College, Meadville, Pennsylvania.Comfort helped found the American Philological Association whose first meeting he organized in Poughkeepsie, New York in 1869.