He was an enthusiastic student and one of the foremost Semitic scholars of his times. Besides numerous contributions to different reviews he published the following works: •
De indole ac ratione versionis Alexandrinæ in interpretando libri Jobi (Marburg, 1862) •
S. Ephraemi Syri Carmina Nisibena, with prolegomena fixing the laws of Syriac metre (Leipzig, 1866) •
Grundriss der hebräischen Grammatik (ib., 1869–70), translated into English by
Sam. I. Curtiss under the title
Outlines of Hebrew Grammar (ib., 1877) •
Gründe für die Unfehlbarkeit des Kirchenoberhauptes (Münster, 1870) •
Conspectus rei Syrorum litterariæ (ib., 1871) •
Messe und Pascha (Mainz, 1872), tr.
W. F. Skene, ''The Lord's Supper and the Passover'' (Edinburgh, 1891) •
Schriften und Gedichte syrischer Kirchenväter (vols. 71 and 72 of the
Sammlung der Kirchenväter of Kempten) •
S. Isaaci Antiocheni opera omnia (2 vols., Giessen, 1873–77) •
Kalilag und Damnag (Leipzig, 1876), an edition and translation into German of the earliest extant translation (into
Syriac) of the
Panchatantra •
Metrices biblicae regulæ exemplis illustratae (Innsbruck, 1879) •
Synodi brixinenses saec. quindecimi (ib., 1880) •
Carmina V. T. metrice (ib., 1882) •
Dichtungen de Hebraer (3 vols., ib., 1882–84) •
Der Prediger (Koheleth) über den Wert des Dasiens (ib., 1886) •
Das Buch Job (Vienna, 1894) ==References==