| Code | DS/UK/1271 |
| Dates | 20/02/1874-08/08/1949 |
| Person Name | Lauffer; Otto Theodor Arthur Joh. (20/02/1874-08/08/1949); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Lauffer |
| Forenames | Otto Theodor Arthur Joh. |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Folklorist; assistant at the National Germanic Museum in Nuremberg (1897-1902); Direktorialassistent at the Museum in Frankfurt (1902-1907), then Director (1907-1908); founding Director of the Hamburg History Museum (1908-1946); Professor at the University of Hamburg (1919-1939); founding member of the Bund für deutsche Volkskunde (1933); member of the NSDAP (since 1937). |
| History | Studied german philology, history and art history at the universities of Göttingen, Munich and Berlin (1891-1896); assistant at the University library Göttingen (1896). |
| Source | Fischer, Norbert, "Lauffer, Otto" in ed. Franklin Kopitzsch and Dirk Brietzke, Hamburgische Biografie. Personenlexikon, Hamburg: Christians, 2006, vol. 3, p. 219f. |
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