NIGGEMEIER, Hermann. Münsterland 1908 — 2005. German Anthropologist. From 1926 studies of geography and anthropology at Köln. Ph.D. 1932 Köln. Fieldwork in India and Moluccas. After brief stay with Koppers in Vienna from 1934 Assistant, then Oberassistent in Frobenius-Institut in Frankfurt a/M. In 1940-45 in army, then war prisoner, released…
NEUMANN, Günter. Freiberg, Saxonia 31.5.1920 — Würzburg 24.1.2005. German IE Scholar. Professor in Würzburg. Son of a teacher. During the war served in army in northern Norway (learned Norwegian), then British war prisoner. Studies at Leipzig (J. Friedrich) and Göttingen. Ph.D. 1953 (diss. on Greek literature). Worked as schoolteacher. From…
MÜLLER, Gerhard Friedrich (Fëdor Ivanovič Miller). Herford, Westfalen 29.10.1705 — Moscow 11/22.10.1783. German Historian, Ethnograph and Explorer of Siberia in Russia. Son of gymnasium director Thomas Müller and Anna Maria Bode. Gymnasium in Herford, studied at Rinteln and Leipzig (Greman Wikip., in Russianversion Rinteln and Halle), mainly philosophy and history. In…
LUSCHEY, Heinz. Berlin 3.12.1910 — Tübingen 1.1.1992. German Archaeologist of Iran. Son of gymnasium teacher Gustav Luschey (1880–1954), matriculated from his father’s school in Stettin. Studied clasical archaeology at Munich, Ph.D. 1938 (diss. on Greek phiales). Military service in WW II. After war Assistant at Tübingen, PD 1956. In 1956-61…
KREFTER, Friedrich. Emden 15.10.1898 — Bad Honnef near Bonn 25.1.1995. German Architect and Archaeologist, Specialist of Persepolis. Matriculated 1917 from Münster, then served in army. In 1919-22 studied architecture in Hannover and Braunschweig. Worked as architect in Berlin (under Herzfeld’s brother-in-law), soon (1923) Herzfeld’s Assistant. In 1928 to Iran with…
KLEUKER, Johann Friedrich. Osterode am Harz 24.10.1749 — Kiel 31.5./1.6.1827. German Protestant theologian. Professor in Kiel. Son of shoemaker Johann Christian Kleuker (1715–1758) and Dorothea Magdalena Rose (1716–1770). From 1770 studied theology, philology and philosophy at Göttingen. Soon befriended with J. G. Herder. From 1778 secondary school principal in Osnabrück.…
KEIPER, Philipp. Otterberg, Kaiserslauten 15.3.1855 — Regensburg 21.10.1927. German Teacher and Philologist. Studied classics and Iranian (Spiegel). Ph.D. 1877 Erlangen. Gymnasium teacher in Erlangen, Ludwigshafen and Zweibrücken. Publications: Diss. Die Perser des Aeschylos: als Quelle für altpersische Altertumskunde nebst Erklärung der darin vorkommenden altpersischen Eigennamen. 114 p. Erlangen 1877. – “Die…
KAMMENHUBER, Annelies. Hamburg 19.3.1922 — Munich 14.12.1995. German Linguist and Hittite Scholar. Professor in Munich. Daughter of Georg Kammenhuber, a master locksmith, and Maria Hawranek, a Roman Catholic family. Grew up in Hamburg. Studied at Hamburg English, Romance, Latin, Indology, IE linguistics and philosophy in 1940-50 (delayed by the war),…
HÖLTY, Arnold Karl Konrad. Jembke, dt. Gifhorn, Niedersachsen 11.8.1800 — 2.9.1857. German Theologian. Son of a priest. Studies ar Göttingen. From 1826 Lutheran Pastor in Uelzen (1836), 1838-42 Superintendet in Osterode, then in Lüneburg until 1852. Provost in Ruelzen 1852-57. Married. Publications: Dsjemschid, Feridun, Gustasp, Zoroaster: eine kritisch-historische Untersuchung über die beiden…
HOECK, Karl Friedrich Christian. Oelber am Weißen Wege, Wolfenbüttel 13.5.1794 — Göttingen 13.1.1877. German Classical Philologist and Historian. After gymnasium in Wolfenbüttel studied 2012-16 Classics at Göttingen (under Heeren et al.). From 1814 employed in Göttingen University. Ph.D. 1818., soon (still 1818) PD, ao. Professor 1823, ord. 1831. From 1845…