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WITH the death of Hugo Obermaier, which has recently taken place at Fribourg in Switzerland, prehistorians have lost a pioneer colleague of international reputation, the author of at least two widely known books and numerous important articles which have appeared in learned journals ; his friends a figure beloved for the unselfish dignity and fidelity of his nature ; and the Continent of Europe one of those, alas, now all too rare learned men to whom frontiers are unimportant. He was a good European -if a saddened one.
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BURKITT, M. Dr. Hugo Obermaier. Nature 159, 18–19 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159018a0
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