In addition to his academic work, he studied with meticulous precision the life of the Hessian peasants in the last third of the 19th century, especially in the immediate and wider area of Marburg, on which he wrote his observations and described it in countless sketches and watercolors.
Кроме научной работы, глубоко изучил быт крестьян последней трети XIX-го века, особенно в окрестностях Марбурга, о котором написал свои наблюдения и изобразил его в бесчисленных эскизах и акварелях.