Martin Pfeiffer studied and taught Indology at the Freie Universität Berlin.
He published Elements of Kurux Historical Phonology (1972) and Indische
Mythen vom Werden der Welt: Texte, Strukturen, Geschichte (1994), and he
translated some 50 non-fiction books into German (mostly from English, but
also from Italian, French, Russian, and Serbo-Croatian, while it was still a
language).