Hans Ehelolf
Hans Ehelolf (born July 30, 1881 in Hanover , † May 29, 1939 in Berlin ) was a German antiquarian and Hittite scientist .
Life
Hans Wilhelm Heinrich Ehelolf spent his childhood in Hanover and made the Leibniz-Gymnasium its High School . From 1910 he studied Assyriology , Indology and Semitic languages at the University of Marburg with Peter Jensen . In 1911 he studied Indo-European questions in Indology for one semester at the University of Leipzig under Karl Brugmann and Karl Friedrich Geldner . A few days before the beginning of the First World War in 1914 , he received his doctorate under Peter Jensen. His dissertation was entitled A Word Sequence Principle in Assyrian-Babylonian .
In 1915 Ehelolf became a research assistant in the Near Eastern Department of the Berlin Museum .
On October 15, 1915, he was drafted into the army . He did his military service as an Arabic interpreter for the German military missions in the Ottoman Empire . For his achievements there he received the Iron Cross II. Class and the Iron Crescent . He was discharged from the army on November 9, 1918 and resumed his work in the museum.
From 1920 learned Ehelolf Hittite and addressed in detail the texts from Boğazköy .
Services
In 1928, Hans Ehelolf took over the Boghazköi project as curator of the collection. He was responsible for the entire project and the publication of the texts. The restoration , photography and Autografieren the text panels of Boghazkoi is one of his greatest achievements. Since 1928 he has taught at the University of Berlin's Indology Department.
Publications (selection)
- Together with B. Landsberger: The ancient Asian calendar in ZDMG 74. S. 216ff.
- An ancient Assyrian law book. 1922. ( digitized version )
- Race and game in the Hittite ritual. in: Meeting reports of the Prussian Academy of Sciences. 1925.
- Together with Ferdinand Sommer : The Hittite ritual of the Papanikri of Komana . Boghazköi Studies 10, 1924.
Web links
- Literature by and about Hans Ehelolf in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ Brockhaus Encyclopedia. Vol. 25 Personal Register, p. 265. (1994) ISBN 3-7653-1025-5 .
- ^ Hans Güterbock : Hans Ehelolf and the Berlin Boghasköi archive, Das Altertum 33 (1987) p. 114ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Married Wolf, Hans |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German ancient orientalist and Hittiteologist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1881 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hanover |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 29, 1939 |
| Place of death | Berlin |