Background
Huth was born in Krotoszyn (Krotoschin) in the Province of Posen, Prussia.
archaeologist explorer university professor
Huth was born in Krotoszyn (Krotoschin) in the Province of Posen, Prussia.
In 1885, he entered the University of Berlin, and he graduated at the University of Leipzig (Doctor of Philosophy) in 1889.
In 1897, he undertook a journey to Siberia for the purpose of studying Tungusic, receiving a subvention from the Imperial Academy of Sciences of Saint St. Petersburg. He went to eastern Turkestan with the German Turfan expedition of the Königliches Museum für Völkerkunde of Berlin, in 1902, and spent the following year in western Turkestan studying Turkish dialects and folklore.