sentences:  In 1876, Wenker earned his Ph.D. degree in Tübingen with a dissertation topic on the shifting of German root syllables.In 1877 he took on the position as a librarian at Königlichen Universität Marburg, where he later received an honorary professorship in 1898.In 1886, he was appointed honorary member of the Koninklijke vlaamsche Academie voor taal- en letterkunde.