Heinrich Wuttke

Having obtained his Abitur degree in 1836, he went on to study history, philosophy and philology at the city's university, where he befriended professor Hoffmann von Fallersleben.

Wuttke maintained good relations with the Saxon education minister Karl Ludwig von der Pfordten.

After the death of cultural historian Gustav Klemm in 1867 he demanded the acquisition of his comprehensive collections which created the basis for the Leipzig Museum of Ethnography.

He held his post at Leipzig University until his death in 1876, when the chair was renamed Auxiliary sciences of Medieval and Modern History led by Carl von Noorden.

Among his numerous published works was a History of Scripture, covering a wide range of non-alphabetical writing from tattoo, cuneiform and hieroglyphs to Japanese and Chinese characters, as well as an 1854 edition of Aethicus Ister titled Aethici Istrici Cosmographia ab Hieronymo ex Graeco Latinum breviarium redacta.