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and rearing birds, insects and reptiles. After high school (Abitur 1928 from
Mannheim), he worked at Vogelwarten in Denmark and Heligoland. He then joined the University of Göttingen and studied zoology, botany and geology. He was a fan of the Swedish geographer
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Schäfer married in 1937, but his wife died in a hunting accident in
November, which emotionally affected him for months. He completed his Ph.D. in 1938, based on his studies of the birds of Tibet. Schäfer joined the
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carefully packed up the voluminous natural history collection- animal and bird skins; butterflies, bees, ants, wasps and other insect specimens; fragile dried plants for the
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who could also lead the Tibet
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Austria. There the new institute went to work, experimenting with samples of grains that Schäfer had acquired from the granaries of the Tibetan nobility.
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in the personal staff, and in 1942 he was promoted to
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culture that existed in Asia about 1,000 years ago has been brought into question due to certain incoherent features of clothing and style.
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class, an extremely rare type, of meteorite and possibly carved from a piece of the
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