Klaus Wenk, born in 1927, holds the degree of LL.D., and Ph.D., in Asiatic studies and an honorary doctorate of letters.
He is professor of languages and cultures of Southeast Asia at the University of Hamburg and former Head of the Department of Thailand, Burma, and Indochina. A prolific writer, Klaus Wenk has authored several publications of the literature, the arts, and the history of Thailand, Laos and Burma.
Among his thirty books are included The Art of Mother of Pearl in Thailand, a set of three volumes on mural paintings of Thailand and another folio on Burmese murals.