Johannes Friedrich (ancient orientalist)

Johannes Friedrich (born August 27, 1893 in Schönefeld near Leipzig , † August 12, 1972 in Berlin ) was a German ancient orientalist .

Life

He studied at the University of Leipzig a . a. with Franz Studniczka , Johannes Kromayer , Max Heinze , Emil Jungmann and Eduard Sievers Indo-European Studies, Classical Philology and Semitic Studies and was awarded a Dr. phil. PhD. From 1917 to 1924 he worked as a school teacher. In 1924 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig. In 1925 he received a teaching post for "ancient Asian languages", in 1928 he became an assistant. Since March 25, 1929, he had a non-scheduled extraordinary professor at the University of Leipzig. In November 1933 he signed the German professors' confession of Adolf Hitler . Since April 30, 1936 he was a full professor of oriental philology. From 1940 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences .

Elected freely on July 30, 1948, Friedrich was rector of Leipzig University from October 31, 1948 to October 31, 1949.

Decorative urn for Johannes Friedrich in the columbarium of the Wilmersdorf cemetery

On September 30, 1950, he left the University of Leipzig and went to the Free University of Berlin , where he received a newly established chair for ancient oriental philology. On September 30, 1961 he retired.

Publications (selection)

• Deminutive formations with non-deminutive meaning, especially in Greek and Latin. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1916 (= dissertation).
• Hittite studies . Reprint from the magazine for Assyriology and related history, new series No. 1 (35) and 2 (36), de Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1924.
• State treaties of the Ḫatti empire in the Hittite language II . Communications of the Middle East-Egyptian Society 34. Hinrichs, Leipzig 1930 (= habilitation thesis).
• Asia Minor language monuments . Berlin 1932.
• Phoenician-Punic grammar . Rome 1951.
• Brief grammar of the old Quiché language in Popol Vuh. Publishing house of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz. Commissioned by Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden 1955 (= Academy of Sciences and Literature. Treatises of the humanities and social sciences class. Born 1955, No. 4).
• The Hittite laws. Brill, Leiden 1959.
• Deciphering of lost scripts and languages. Springer, Berlin 1954; 2nd, improved edition, Springer, Berlin, Göttingen, New York 1966.

Archival material

• Leipzig University Archives, Personnel File PA 0480 (186 sheets)

literature

• Johannes Mehlig : Johannes Friedrich. August 27, 1893 - August 12, 1972 . In: Yearbook of the Saxon Academy of Sciences 1971–1972 . Leipzig 1974, pp. 332-338.
• Heinrich Otten : Johannes Friedrich. August 27, 1893 - August 12, 1972 . In: Journal of Assyriology and Near Eastern Archeology , Vol. 62 (1972), pp. 161-162, ISSN  0084-5299 .
• Wolfgang Röllig : Johannes Friedrich . In: Journal of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, Vol. 123 (1973), pp. 1-5, ISSN  0341-0137 .
• Einar von Schuler : Johannes Friedrich . In: Archive for Orient Research , Vol. 24 (1973), pp. 241-243, ISSN  0066-6440 .
• Short biography for:  Friedrich, Johannes . In: Who was who in the GDR? 5th edition. Volume 1. Ch. Links, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86153-561-4 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Johannes Friedrich in the catalog of the German National Library
• Michael P. Streck: History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Leipzig (PDF file; 4.30 MB)
• Johannes Friedrich (ancient orientalist) in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig