| Code | DS/UK/1720 |
| Dates | 07/12/1890-06/03/1969 |
| Person Name | Niessen; Karl Hubert (07/12/1890-06/03/1969); Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Surname | Niessen |
| Forenames | Karl Hubert |
| Title | Prof. Dr. phil. |
| Activity | Art historian and theatre historian. Founder and chair of the theatre studies collection at the University Cologne; Extraordinary Professor of Theatre (1929-1936); Director and Associate Professor of the Theatre Studies at the University of Cologne (1936-1959). |
| Relationships | Son of Arnold Niessen and Getrud Niessen, née Buchholz. |
| History | Studied Art History at the universities of Heidelberg, Bonn, Munich, Berlin, Rostock; doctoral dissertation (1913); habilitation (1919). |
| Source | Wer ist's, edited by Herrmann A.L. Degener, Vol. IX, Leipzig 1928, p. 1119; Meyers Großes Personenlexikon, Mannheim 1968, p. 949.
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