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Wolfgang Lange

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German philologist

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According to Wikipedia, Wolfgang Friedrich-Karl Lange was a German philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. Biography Wolfgang Lange was born in Kiel, Germany on 29 June 1915. After gaining his abitur in Wilhelmshaven in 1934, Lange did labor service in the Wehrmacht. Since 1935, Lange studied German, history, philosophy, anthropology, music and art at the University of Kiel. At Kiel, Lange came under the influence of Otto Höfler, who inspired himself to specialize in Germanic studies, particularly Old Norse studies. In 1939, Lange accompanied Höfler to the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, where he gained his Ph.D. under the supervision Höfler with a thesis on dragons in early Germanic literature.

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