Gustav Wustmann was a German

Germans

The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....

 philologist

Philology

Philology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...

 and historian

History

History is the discovery, collection, organization, and presentation of information about past events. History can also mean the period of time after writing was invented. Scholars who write about history are called historians...

, born in Dresden

Dresden

Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....

, where he frequented the Kreuzschule, before studying philology at Leipzig

Leipzig

Leipzig Leipzig has always been a trade city, situated during the time of the Holy Roman Empire at the intersection of the Via Regia and Via Imperii, two important trade routes. At one time, Leipzig was one of the major European centres of learning and culture in fields such as music and publishing...

 in 1862-66. He then taught at the Nikolai Gymnasium in Leipzig until 1881, when appointed director of the municipal archive

Archive

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s and city librarian

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. From 1879 he was also associate editor of the Grenzboten and in 1897 received the title of professor

Professor

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. 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 Borchardt

Carl Wilhelm Borchardt

Carl Wilhelm Borchardt was a German mathematician.Borchardt was born to a Jewish family in Berlin. His father, Moritz, was a respected merchant, and his mother was Emma Heilborn. Borchardt studied under a number of tutors, including Julius Plücker and Jakob Steiner...

's Die sprichwörtlichen Redensarten im deutschen Volksmund nach Sinn und Ursprung erläutert (fifth edition, 1895). He published:

• Apelles' Leben und Werke (1870)
• Der Leipziger Baumeister Hieronymus Lotter
  Lotter
  Lotter was the last name of a family of German printers, intimately connected with the Reformation.The founder of the family was Melchior Lotter, the elder, born at Aue, and well-known at Leipzig as early as 1491. He published missals, breviaries, a Persius , Horatii Epistolœ , and Luther...
  
  (1875)
• Beiträge zur Geschichte der Malerei in Leipzig vom 15. bis 17. Jahrhundert (1879)
• Aus Leipzigs Vergangenheit (1885)
• Quellen zur Geschichte Leipzigs (1889-95)
• Leipzig durch drei Jahrhunderte (1890)
• Allerhand Sprachdummheiten (1891)
• Der Wirt von Auerbachs Keller
  Auerbachs Keller
  Auerbachs Keller is the best known and second oldest restaurant in Leipzig. It was described in Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's play Faust I, as the first place Mephistopheles takes Faust on their travels....
  
  , Dr. Heinrich Stromer von Auerbach (1902)