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Otfried Deubner

Otfried Deubner is a astronomy topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Otfried Deubner rather than just read about it. In short: Otfried Deubner (19 December 1908 in Königsberg, Germany – 16 March 2001) was a German classical archaeologist and diplomat. During World War II, Otfried Deubner worked as a linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt).

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Reference excerpt

Otfried Deubner (19 December 1908 in Königsberg, Germany – 16 March 2001) was a German classical archaeologist and diplomat. During World War II, Otfried Deubner worked as a linguist in Pers Z S, the signals intelligence agency of the German Foreign Office (German: Auswärtiges Amt).

Early life and education Deubner was the son of the classical philologist and religious historian Ludwig Deubner. He attended the Lessing-Gymnasium in Frankfurt am Main and the Berthold-Gymnasium in Freiburg im Breisgau. In Easter 1926 he successfully passed the university-preparatory school-leaving qualification Abitur. Subsequently, he studied for one semester each at the University of Stuttgart and Technical University of Munich, before he studied Classical Archeology, Classical Philology and Ancient History in Freiburg, Heidelberg, Berlin, Koenigsberg and Munich.

Career On 17 December 1931 he was promoted by the archaeologist and translator Ernst Buschor in Munich. For 1932-1933 he received the travel scholarship of the German Archaeological Institute. From Autumn 1933-1935 he worked as an employee of the excavation of Pergamon in the Asclepeion. From 1935 to 1936 he was employed as an assistant to the Department of Rome of the German Archaeological Institute. From November 1937 to February 1938, he served his military service. From 1 April 1939, he worked as a scientific assistant at the Pergamon Museum in Berlin. From 11 July 1940, he worked as a research assistant in the intelligence and communications department of the Foreign Office. After the war, he was briefly interned by the Americans, before he taught at the University of Marburg as Deputy Assistant, from 1 November 1945 to 31 March 1949. He received his Habilitation as a professor in classical archeology on 18 December 1946. Since April 1946 he had been active in the Hessian debt service and passed the State exam on 26 July 1946. From May 1949, he was a teacher at the boarding school of Schule Schloss Salem. In 1949, he rejected a call to take the chair for Classical archaeology at the University of Jena. On 7 December 1950, he was reemployed in the Foreign Office and was initially placed in the headquarters in Bonn. From 1953 until his retirement, on 31 December 1971, he served as cultural adviser in the German agencies in Lisbon, Dublin, Damascus, Bern and at the Holy See. He last lived in Munich. Deubner was a member of the Archaeological Society of Berlin until 1975.

Publications Hellenistische Apollogestalten, Athen 1934 (= Dissertation) Das Asklepieion von Pergamon. Kurze vorläufige Beschreibung, Berlin 1938 Ludwig Deubner: Kleine Schriften zur klassischen Altertumskunde, Herausgegeben und mit einer Bibliographie sowie einem ausführlichen Register versehen von Otfried Deubner, Königstein/Taunus 1982, ISBN 3-445-02250-X

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Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Otfried Deubner

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Otfried Deubner claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In astronomy, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Otfried Deubner before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Otfried Deubner ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Otfried Deubner

In research: Otfried Deubner appears in astronomy research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Otfried Deubner in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Otfried Deubner is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 1908 births, 2001 deaths, 20th-century German archaeologists, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Otfried Deubner outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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