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| Born | 12 October 1911 Nidden, Prussia, Germany, now Nida, Lithuania |
| Died | 12 March 2000 (aged 88) |
| Nationality | German |
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Lothar Kilian (12 October 1911 – 12 March 2000) was a German archaeologist and linguist, who researched Balts, Germanic peoples and the Proto-Indo-European homeland.
Biography[edit]
Lothar Kilian was born in Nidden, Prussia, Germany, (after 1919 Memelland (Klaipėda Region), then Nida, Lithuania) on 12 October 1911. He gained his Ph.D. in archaeology at the University of Königsberg in 1939. After World War II, Kilian worked at the University of Bonn and at the Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier. Kilian authored a number of works on the origins of the Balts and Germanic peoples, and the Proto-Indo-European homeland. His studies on these subjects were important.[1] He died on 12 March 2000.[2]
Selected works[edit]
- Haffküstenkultur und Ursprung der Balten, 1955
- Zu Herkunft und Sprache der Prussen:, 1980
- Zum Ursprung der Indogermanen, 1983
- Zum Ursprung der Germanen, 1988
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References[edit]
- ^ Todd, Malcolm (2004). The Early Germans (2 ed.). Blackwell Publishing. pp. 10–11. ISBN 1-4051-1714-1.
In the 1980s the pendulum began a backward swing. Once again, arguments which trace the origin of the Germanic peoples to a remote period of European prehistory, to the later Neolithic, are heard. Lothar Kilian in two important studies has presented a strongly argued case, based partly on elements of continuity in archaeological cultures, partly on linguistic evidence.
- ^ "Lothar Kilian (1922-2000)" (in Lithuanian). Lietuvos archeologijos draugija. Retrieved 4 January 2021.
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