OOC: Hmm not sure why this dissapeared the first time. |
Andy is somewhat flooded by data and has a hard time picking through the chaff.
From
ES clipping service - Professor Gosshamm's brutal death made national television and newspapers. Several TV News programs showed edited CCTV footage of the attack. Both the press and TV talked about distinctive 'gang' tattoos which are hauntingly familiar to the Andy. Police believe Gosshamm may have got himself caught up with Albanians over drug smuggling and point to his frequent visits to Albania including one only a week or so before his death.
All curtesy of Google:
• There are a number of Eastern European experts in the UK, a smaller number of Albanian experts, but only one expert on the Verbetoi, Gosshamm.
• He is a prominent anthropologist, linguist and folklorist whose work has “mined the rich, often overlooked territory of the Balkans” specifically Albania.
• Professor Gosshamm states his academic net is cast so wide he does not believe there is a single name for his field of study and he claims to be a linguist, sociologist, anthropologist and an archaeologists
• As a linguist, studying at Miskatonic University Professor Gosshamm started a long-time interest in the Ur-language, the idea of the hypothetical common ancestor of all the world's spoken languages.
• Professor Gosshamm is well known for his preference to carry out his studies in the field where the subjects of his studies are flesh and blood.
The following from ES clipping service:
Professor Adrian C.Gosshamm, Chair of Eastern European Studies at Brichester University. Born on June 24, 1960, in Winchester by the time he was a young man, he was already deeply interested in the Balkans. He earned a bachelor’s degree in literature and anthropology from Kings College in 1981 and a Ph.D. in Anthropology from Miskatonic University in 1986.
Professor Charles Grundy - The UCL School of Slavonic and East European Studies. Grundy was an old friend and undergraduate classmate of Gosshamm's at King’s. They later studied together at Miskatonic where the younger Grundy did his MA and then Ph.D (86-89) Grundy is on record as thinking Gosshamm’s theories far fetched, but he also stated that he thought him rigorous in gathering the necessary proof to prove his theorems. Was briefly married to Maria Demachi. Along with Mathers and Gosshamm they were known as the gang of four (Miskatonic Year book 1986)
Professor Tom Mathers chair of Russian, Eurasian and Eastern European Studies, University of Warwick, another old friend. Did his Ph.D at Kings where he was Gosshamms student councilor, held a junior position at Miskatonic while writing his paper on 12th century Eastern European religious art.
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via LinkedIn) Maria Demachi PhD, Director Albanian Archaeology Rescue team
Received her BA in 1986 from Oxford where she studied Classics; received a separate MA in 1989 from Miskatonic University. Main research interests include the colonization in central Albania and the Adriatic Coast, and the study of jewellery from Archaic to Hellenistic periods. Other interests: mortuary archaeology, techniques of excavation, sciences applied to archaeology, techniques of production of ceramic and metal objects, conservation.
Was the assistant director of the Albanian Archaeology Rescue team since its foundation in 1998 till June 200* when she became director.