Hans Heinrich Brüning

Hans Heinrich Brüning ( born August 20, 1848 in Hoffeld (Holstein ); † July 2, 1928 in Bordesholm ) was a German merchant, ethnographer and linguist.

Hans Heinrich Brüning came in 1875 as a ship's engineer to Peru, studied from there, earned his livelihood with the maintenance and further development of agricultural machinery and began to deal with the pre-Hispanic cultures in northern Peru. Near the village Túcume he discovered the remains of the Lambayeque culture ( Pyramids of Túcume ). For several now extinct American Indian languages, including the Muchik, he created word lists. In Chiclayo Archaeological Museum Brüning ( Hans Heinrich Brüning Archaeological Museum Nacional de Lambayeque ) named after him. His extensive, undeveloped until the 1970s, Peru Collection is part of the permanent exhibition at the Museum of Ethnology Hamburg.