Georg Huth
Prussian linguist, explorer and lecturer of XIXth century, specialised in Central Asia cultures
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Georg Huth was a German Orientalist and explorer. Huth was born in Krotoszyn in the Province of Posen, Prussia. In 1885, he entered the University of Berlin, and he graduated at the University of Leipzig 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.
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