Everything about Franz Altheim totally explained
Franz Altheim (*
October 6 1898 in
Frankfurt am Main; †
October 17 1976 in
Münster in Westfalen) was a German historian, best known for his trip with Erika Trautmann funded by the
Ahnenerbe and
Hermann Göring.
Early life
Altheim was born to an eccentric sculptor of a father in
Frankfurt, Germany, who passed his
Bohemian ways onto his son. But after Franz's mother left, his father committed suicide on Christmas Day
1914. In
1917, Altheim joined the
German army, became a translator and was then stationed in
Turkey.
Career
Altheim went on to university, studying classical philology, archaeology and linguistics, paying for his education with a bank job. After making several annual trips to Italy funded by government grants, he became a private lecturer at the
University of Frankfurt in 1928. After making friends with
Leo Frobenius, a well known researcher in Germany at the time. Frobenius attended annual events at the home in the
Netherlands of former
kaiser Wilhelm II where he invited academic elites, and Frobenius asked Altheim to join them.
In 1938, Altheim went on an expedition through the
Middle East with his lover, Erika Trautmann.
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