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Germanic studies scholars

  • François-Xavier DillmannFrançois-Xavier Dillmann was born on the 27th of November 1949, and he has spent his career doing something very few scholars attempt: mastering the…
  • Lotte MotzLotte Motz left her home in Vienna on the 16th of August 1922, but she did not return. Her family fled Austria in 1941 following the Anschluss, a political…
  • John LindowJohn Frederick Lindow entered the world on the 23rd of July 1946. He was born in Washington, D.C., to Wesley Lindow and Eleanor Niemetta.
  • Joan Turville-PetreJoan Elizabeth Turville-Petre entered the world on the 10th of May 1911. Her parents were Sam Blomfield and Kate Barton from Colchester in Essex.
  • Wilhelm MannhardtWilhelm Mannhardt entered the world on the 26th of March 1831 in Friedrichstadt. He grew up in Danzig under the care of a Mennonite preacher father.
  • Jacob GrimmJacob Ludwig Karl Grimm entered the world on the 4th of January 1785 in Hanau, Hesse-Kassel. His father Philipp worked as a lawyer but died while Jacob was…
  • Hilda Ellis DavidsonHilda Roderick Ellis Davidson was born in Bebington, Cheshire, England, on the 1st of October 1914. Her father Henry Roderick worked as a stationer while her…
  • Rudolf SimekRudolf Simek was born on the 21st of February 1954 in Austria. He began his academic journey as a philologist and religious studies scholar.
  • Gabriel Turville-PetreGabriel Turville-Petre entered the world at Bosworth Hall in Husbands Bosworth, Leicestershire on the 25th of March 1908.
  • Georges DumézilGeorges Dumézil was born in Paris on the 4th of March 1898. His father Jean Dumézil served as a highly educated general in the French Army.
  • Peter Andreas MunchPeter Andreas Munch entered the world on the 15th of December 1810 in Christiania. His father Edvard Storm Munch served as a parish priest for the Church of…
  • Viktor RydbergAbraham Viktor Rydberg entered the world on the 18th of December 1828 in Gothenburg, Sweden. His father Johan worked as a soldier before becoming a prison…
  • Åke OhlmarksÅke Ohlmarks stood before his professors at Lund University in 1937. He had just defended a doctoral thesis titled Heimdalls Horn und Odins Auge.