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Otto Huth

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German theologian

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According to Wikipedia, Otto Huth was a German historian of religion and folklorist who was a member of the Ahnenerbe and held a professorial position at the Nazi Reichsuniversität Straßburg. Early life and education Huth was the son of a neurologist who was a friend of the völkisch publisher Eugen Diederichs. His sister later married , who headed the Ahnenerbe division of African studies. Born and educated in Bonn, he earned his PhD in 1932 from the University of Bonn under the supervision of Carl Clemen, with a dissertation on the Roman god Janus, and his habilitation in 1939 from the University of Tübingen after the intervention of Jakob Wilhelm Hauer.

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