HÖPFNER, Gerd

HÖPFNER, Gerd. 20.6.1929 — 30.4.2005. German Ethnologist. Studies of ethnology and geography. Ph.D. 1957 Berlin (diss. on Melanesia). From 1961 worked in Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, finally stellvertretende Direktor, retired 1994. Travelled in South and South-East Asia. Publications: Verbreitung und Gestaltung von Steinkopfkeulen in Melanesien. 100 p. 1958. – Südostasiatische…

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KUNIKE, Hugo

KUNIKE, Hugo. Hamburg 2.3.1887 — 1945/49. German Anthropologist. Son of a merchant, gymnasium in Wandsbek. Studies of ethnology, philosophy and comparative linguistics at Berlin. Ph.D. 1912 Leipzig. In 1909-19 worked as wissenschaftlicher Hilfsarbeiter in Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin, then private scholar in Berlin. Publications: Diss. Couvade oder das sogenannte Männerkindbett. Halle…

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STÖNNER, Heinrich

STÖNNER, Albert Heinrich. Bremen 30.5.1872 — 13.12.1931. German Indologist. Educated in Bremen. Studied first two years chemistry at Marburg and one year at Halle, then 5 years Indology at Berlin (Geldner, Weber, Sieg) and in 1901 at Halle (Pischel). Ph.D. 1901 Halle. From 1901 worked in Berlin Museum, concentrating on…

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HUTH, Georg

HUTH, Georg. Krotoschin, Posen (now Krotoszyn in Poland) 25.2.1867 — Berlin 1.6.1906. German Indologist and Tibetologist. Born in a Jewish family in the then Prussian part of Poland, where his father Aron Huth (d. 1893) was Rector of a Jewish school, mother Keile Pincus (thus Vogel & ancestry.com, Knüppel has…

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