Friedo Lampe place of birth Bremen
Early life
Lampe was born in Bremen on 4 December 1899. He was diagnosed at the age of five with bone tuberculosis in his left ankle. Lampe read literature, art history, and philosophy at Heidelberg (with Friedrich Gundolf and Karl Jaspers), Munich, and Fribourg (with Edmund Husserl). In 1928, he obtained his PhD, which focused on the "Songs of Two Lovers" by Goeckingk. In 1928 he also met the medievalist Margarete Kühn, with whom he formed an enduring Platonic relationship, spending one or two evenings a week with her when they were both living in Berlin in the 1940s. Despite his homosexuality, the pair planned to marry after the war.
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