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The Swiss historian, theologist and teacher Hans Werner Debrunner (1923-1998) collaborated with Carl Schlettwein and the BAB for many years. The BAB published his influential monograph ‘Presence and Prestige – […]

The Norwegian historian and bibliographer Tore Linné Eriksen visited the BAB in 1983 in order to conduct an extensive survey of its Namibia holdings. Publishing his important ‘The Political Economy […]

The chemical engineer Ernst Rudolf Scherz (1906-1981) had emigrated to Windhoek (Namibia) from Germany in 1933, his wife, the photographer Anneliese Fuss-Hippel (1900-1985) following him in 1938. The couple became […]