Otto Höfler
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Otto Eduard Gottfried Ernst Höfler was an Austrian philologist who specialized in Germanic studies. A student of Rudolf Much, Höfler was Professor and Chair of German Language and Old German Literatur
Otto Höfler
Otto Höfler lecturing his predecessor Dietrich Kralik and students during an excursion to the Mausoleum of Theodoric in Ravenna, Italy
Otto Höfler congratulating the family of his student Otto Gschwantler as Gschwantler is awarded the Sub auspiciis Praesidentis by President Adolf Schärf for outstanding scholarship
Sketch of Otto Höfler playing the flute like Orpheus
Arminius
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Arminius was a chieftain of the Germanic Cherusci tribe who is best known for commanding an alliance of Germanic tribes at the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in AD 9, in which three Roman legions unde
Otto Höfler
…Bern and Siegfried, the two most important characters in Medieval German literature. He argued that Siegfried was derived from the Germanic chieftain Arminius, who defeated the Roman army in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest in 9 AD. Höfler died in Vienna on 25 August 1987…
Statue of Arminius at the Hermannsdenkmal monument
Relatives of Arminius
Varusschlacht, Otto Albert Koch (1909)
View over the Teutoburg Forest