SIECKE, Ernst Ludwig Albert Karl. Spandau 19.1.1846 — 1935. German Indologist and IE Scholar. Schoolteacher in Berlin. After school and gymnasium in Spandau studied from 1864 IE Linguistics and Sanskrit at Berlin. He was the last student of Bopp, who taught him privately at home until his death, also attended Weber’s teaching. Ph.D. 1869 Berlin. Schoolteacher, later Professor at Lessing-Gymnasium in Berlin.

Siecke was a scholar of IE and Vedic religion and mythology. His major theme was lunar mythology, which gradually took him so completely that in the end everything seemed to get a lunar interpretation. He was also an Anti-Semitist.

Publications: Diss. De genetivi in lingua Sanscrita imprimis Vedica usu. 68 p. B. 1869.

– “Der Gebrauch des Ablativs im Sanskrit, besonders im Veda”, Beitr. zur vergl. Sprachf. 8, 1876, 377-421.

– Edited the 3rd ed. of Bopp’s Vergleichende Grammatik. 1868-71.

– “De Niso et Scylla in aves mutatis”, Beilage zum Programm des Friedrichs-Gymnasium Ostern 1884, 18 p.

– Die Liebesgeschichte des Himmels. Untersuchungen zur indogermanischen Sagen­kunde. 131 p. Strassburg 1892; Die Urreligion der Indogermanen. 38 p. B. 1897; Mythologische Briefe. 258 p. B. 1901; Drachenkämpfe. Untersuchungen zur indo­germanischen Sagenkunde. 123 p. Mythol. Bibl. 1:1. Lp. 1907; Hermes der Mondgott. 118 p. Lp. 1908.

– “Der Gott Rudra im Rig-Veda”, Archiv für Religionswiss. 1, 1898, 113-151, 209-259; “Indra’s Drachenkampf (nach dem Rig-veda)”, Programm des Lessing-Gymnasiums zu Berlin 1905, 18 p.; Pûshan. Studien zur Idee des Hirtengottes. 145 p. Lp. 1914; Der Vegetationsgott. 24 p. Lp. 1914.

– “Max Müllers mythologisches Testament”, Archiv f. Rel.wiss. 5, 1902, 105-131.

– Mythus, Sage, Märchen in ihren Beziehungen zur Gegenwart. 29 p. Lp. 1906.

– Götterattribute und sogenannte Symbole. 8+313 p. Jena 1909.

– Indogermanische Mythologie. 151 p. Lp.: Reclam 1921.

Sources: Life in diss.; works in N.U.C. and worldcat.org.