"Thiasos". In 1922 he refused a call to the University of Hamburg. Before his retirement in 1931 he travelled 1925-1926 again to Thessaly. He received two honorary doctorates from the University of Halle: 1929 from the Faculty of Law and Political Science, 1930 from the Faculty of Theology. Later life and death In 1937 he was elected a corresponding member of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences. Kern became a member of the right-wing radical German Fatherland Party and then of the German National People's Party (DNVP). Otto Kern died on 31 January 1942 at the age of 78. Parts of his estate are in the possession of the Göttingen University Library (Wilamowitz biography), the Central Archive of the National Museums in Berlin (materials on the Pozzo drawings) and the Archive of the German Archaeological Institute (a letter). Works Among his better written efforts was a three part work on the religious history of ancient Greece, "Die Religion der Griechen" (1926–38): Vol. 1. Von den Anfängen bis Hesiod – Prior to Hesiod. Vol. 2. Die Hochblüte bis zum Ausgange des fünften Jahrhunderts – The Golden Age up until the start of the 5th century BC. Vol. 3. Von Platon bis Kaiser Julian – From Plato up to the Emperor Julian. Other significant works by Kern include: Die Gründungsgeschichte von Magnesia am Maiandros, 1894 – The founding history of Magnesia on the Maeander. Beiträge zur Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie und Religion (with Paul Wendland), 1895 – Contributions to the history of Greek philosophy and religion. Ueber die Anfänge der hellenischen Religion, 1902 – On the beginnings of Hellenic religion. Eleusinische Beiträge, 1909 – Eleusinian contributions. Nord-griechische Skizzen, 1912 – Sketches of northern Greece. "Inscriptiones Graecae", 1913. Orpheus. Eine religionsgeschichtliche Untersuchung, 1920 – Orpheus; a religious-historical study. "Orphicorum fragmenta", 1922. References 1863 births 1942 deaths People from Naumburg (Saale) People from the Province of Saxony Linguists from Germany German philologists 20th-century German historians Archaeologists from Saxony-Anhalt German male non-fiction writers Academic staff of the University of Rostock 19th-century German historians