In 1873, Creizenach received his doctorate in
Leipzig for work on Judas Iscariot in
Sage und Legende des Mittelalters. During his studies at Jena while working in the university library in the years 1876–1878, he was an assistant in the library of the
University of Wroclaw. In 1879, after the presentation of work titled
zur Entstehungsgeschichte des deutschen neueren Lustspiels, Creizenach was an assistant professor in the Department of General History of Literature at the University of Leipzig. He taught modern literature and for a time worked as an assistant at the National Library in Paris. In 1883, Creizenach became a professor at
Jagiellonian University. He was head of the German Department. Creizenach contributed to the creation of the Department of Romance Philology at Jagiellonian in 1890 and founded the seminary library
Germanistycznego. He created a center in Poland on New Philology. He lectured on various topics in German history, such as Middle Ages to Romantic German literature, the history of the German language, and the art of
Shakespeare. He was a member of the Examination Committee for candidates for secondary school teachers. In 1913, he finished his career in
Kraków. He died 6 years later in
Dresden in poverty and solitude. ==External links==