 In 1865 he was chosen inaugural professor for archaeology at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich.Among his pupils were Gustav Körte, Adolf Furtwängler, Heinrich Wölfflin, Julius Langbehn, Paul Arndt, Walther Amelung, Arthur Milchhöfer and Heinrich Bulle.From 1865 up until his death in 1894, he was director of the Glyptothek in Munich, publishing in 1868, a guide to the museum, called "Beschreibung der Glyptothek König Ludwig's I. zu München".