Name Georg Huth | Died June 1, 1906 | |
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Georg Huth (February 25, 1867 – June 1, 1906) was a German Orientalist and explorer.
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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.
Works
He published, among others, the following works:
Family and personal life
Father to the writer and professor Dr. Arno George Huth, grandfather to the American artist Gerald Arno Huth, and great-grandfather to the curator Naomi Huth.