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Writers on Germanic paganism

  • J. R. R. TolkienJohn Ronald Reuel Tolkien was born on the 3rd of January 1892 in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State. His father Arthur worked as a bank manager for the British…
  • François-Xavier DillmannFrançois-Xavier Dillmann was born on the 27th of November 1949. His educational path took him across seven different European universities.
  • 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…
  • Karl Joseph SimrockKarl Joseph Simrock was born on the 28th of August 1802 in Bonn. His father worked as a music publisher there. The young Karl studied law at the University…
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Hamilton Wright MabieHamilton Wright Mabie entered the world on the 13th of December 1846 in Cold Spring, New York. His mother Sarah Colwell Mabie came from a wealthy…
  • 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.
  • H. A. GuerberHélène Adeline Guerber entered the world on the 9th of March 1859 in Mount Clemens, Michigan. Her father Arnold S. Guerber arrived in America in 1845 after…
  • Kevin Crossley-HollandKevin John William Crossley-Holland arrived in the world on the 7th of February 1941. He grew up in Whiteleaf, a quiet village nestled within the Chilterns…
  • 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.