Georg Huth (1867-1906)
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- Name (English)
- Georg Huth
- Short name
- Georg Huth
- Year of birth
- 1867
- Year of death
- 1906
- Short Description
- "Georg Huth (25 February 1867 – 1 June 1906) was a German Orientalist and explorer.
Huth was born in Krotoszyn (Krotoschin) in the Province of Posen, Prussia. In 1885, he entered the University of Berlin, and he graduated at the University of Leipzig (Ph.D.) in 1889. In 1891, he established himself at Berlin University as lecturer in Central Asiatic languages and in Buddhism. In 1897, he undertook a journey to Siberia for the purpose of studying Tungusic, receiving a subvention from the Imperial Academy of Sciences of St. Petersburg. He went to eastern Turkestan with the German Turfan expedition of the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde of Berlin, in 1902, and spent the following year in western Turkestan studying Turkish dialects and folklore." - (en.wikipedia.org 11.08.2021) - Entity Encoding
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