!!!Höfler, Otto b. Vienna, May 10, 1901, d. Vienna, Aug. 25, 1987, studied German. 1935-1938 university professor of Germanic antiquity and philology in Kiel, 1938-1945 in Munich and from 1957 in Vienna; in 1971 given emeritus status. Notable contributions to the studies of the history of Germanic religions, of the Germanic sacred kingdom and of historical phonetics and phonology (evolution theory). !Publications Kultische Geheimbuende der Germanen I, 1934; Germanisches Sakralkoenigtum I, 1952; Stammbaumtheorie, Wellentheorie, Entfaltungstheorie, in: Beitraege zur Geschichte der dt. Sprache und Literatur 77 and 78, 1955/1956; Siegfried, Arminius und der Nibelungenhort, 1978. %%language [Back to the Austrian Version|AEIOU/Höfler,_Otto|class='wikipage austrian'] %% [{FreezeArticle author='AEIOU' template='Lexikon_1995_englisch'}] [{ALLOW view All}][{ALLOW comment All}][{ALLOW edit FreezeAdmin}]