Lothar Kilian

Lothar Kilian was a German archaeologist and linguist, who researched Balts, Germanic peoples and the Proto-Indo-European homeland.

Biography

Lothar Kilian was born in Nidden, Prussia, Germany, 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. He died on 12 March 2000.

Selected works

Haffküstenkultur und Ursprung der Balten, 1955Zu Herkunft und Sprache der Prussen:, 1980Zum Ursprung der Indogermanen, 1983Zum Ursprung der Germanen, 1988