Hugo Ruff

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Hugo Ruff (born March 25, 1843 in Cottbus ; † November 8, 1924 there ) was a German homeland researcher .

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Hugo Ruff was born as the son of the businessman Joachim Hermann Ruff and his wife Clementine Ottilie born. Mouth born. His brother Clemens (born February 7, 1845 in Cottbus; † August 22, 1915) was a linguist and studied West Slavic dialects. Hugo Ruff attended the Friedrich-Wilhelm-Gymnasium in Cottbus and then worked for his father. He became the owner and director of a linen factory and later a partner in the wire brick fabric factory Stauss & Ruff in Cottbus and Peitz . He worked for many years as a city ​​councilor and member of the magistrate in his hometown.

As a local history researcher, Ruff co-founded the local history association in 1904, of which he became a board member and librarian . He was also significantly involved in setting up the Cottbus local history museum. Because he campaigned for the preservation of a giant deer antler from the Klinge peat store , Alfred Nehring named a variety as Cervus megaceros var Ruffii . Today it is assigned to the species Megalocerus giganteus . In 1903 Ruff led the recovery of a mammoth skeleton at Klinge , which is now in the Berlin Museum of Natural History . He was a member since 1885, since 1889 member of the board (temporarily treasurer) and since 1922 honorary member of the Niederlausitz Society for Anthropology and Archeology and sat on the administrative committee of their museum in Cottbus.

Ruff was married and had two sons.

literature

  • Niederlausitz messages . Volume 17, Guben 1926, pp. III – IV (after p. 392)
  • Hans-Hermann Krönert: Hugo Ruff . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . March 25, 2008

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Heinz Petzold: Clemens Ruff, patron and linguist . In: Lausitzer Rundschau . August 23, 2005
  2. ↑ The Eem Dig in Blade
personal data
SURNAME Ruff, Hugo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German homeland researcher
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1843
PLACE OF BIRTH cottbus
DATE OF DEATH November 8, 1924
Place of death cottbus