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Hummel, Siegbert

LC control no.n 94070290
Descriptive conventionsrda
Personal name headingHummel, Siegbert
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Associated countryGermany
Birth date19080718
Death date20010328
Field of activityTibet Region--Study and teaching
AffiliationMuseum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig
Profession or occupationTibetologists
Found inDie meroitische Sprache und das protoaltaische Sprachsubstrat als Medium zu ihrer Deutung, c1992: t.p. (Siegbert Hummel) p. 87 (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c.)
Wikipedia, viewed 28 April 2023 (Siegbert Hummel (18 July 1908 - 28 March 2001) was a German Tibetologist and cultural historian. His work focused on the Eurasian context of Tibetan culture, the Bön religion, the Zhangzhung language, and the Gesar epic. He became curator of the Asian department at the Ethnographic Museum of Leipzig in 1947. After leaving the museum in 1955, Hummel worked as a Lutheran pastor in the country parish of Plauen in Vogtland until his retirement.)
Associated languageger tib