 From 1879 he was also associate editor of the "Grenzboten" and in 1897 received the title of professor.He faced much opposition by his publication "Allerhand Sprachdummheiten, Kleine deutsche Grammatik des Zweifelhaften, des Falschen und des Häßlichen" (1891; fourth edition, 1908).Besides a collection of poems, entitled "Als der Großvater die Großmutter nahm" (1886; fourth edition, 1905), he edited a new adaptation of Wilhelm Borchardt’s "Die sprichwörtlichen Redensarten im deutschen Volksmund nach Sinn und Ursprung erläutert" (fifth edition, 1895).