Johann Jakob Hess (Egyptologist)

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Johann Jakob Hess (also Jean Jaques Hess ; born January 11, 1866 in Freiburg im Üechtland ; † April 29, 1949 in Zurich ) was a Swiss Egyptologist , Assyriologist and Arabist.

Johann Jakob Hess was born on January 11, 1866, the son of the master carpenter and traveling salesman Casimir Balthasar Jacques Hess and Josephine-Marie, née Rudolf, in Freiburg. Hess studied Egyptology, Assyriology, Semitic studies and Sinology in Berlin and Strasbourg . After completing his doctorate, he worked from 1889 to 1891 as a private lecturer and from 1891 to 1908 as a professor of Egyptology and Assyriology at the University of Freiburg . This teaching activity was interrupted by a trip to Egypt and Nubia and a four-year stay in Cairo . From 1908 Hess worked in the Survey Department of the British government in Egypt. He also traveled to the Middle East and made a name for himself as a connoisseur of historical geography and place-name studies . In 1918 he followed a call to the University of Zurich , where he worked as an associate professor for "living oriental languages and Islamic cultures" until his retirement in 1936 . Hess introduced modern dialectology to Arabic studies .

Johann Jakob Hess, who was married twice, died on April 29, 1949 in Zurich.

Fonts

  • The demotic part of the trilingual inscription on Rosette . 1902
  • Bedouin names from central Arabia . Meeting reports of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences, Philosophical-Historical Class 1912, Abh. 19. Winter, Heidelberg 1912.
  • From the Bedouins of interior Arabia. Stories, songs, customs and traditions. Niehaus, Zurich 1938.

literature

  • Neue Zürcher Zeitung , May 28, 1949
  • Histoire de l'Université de Friborg, Suisse. 1889-1989, 1, 1991, 67, 116, 119; 3, 1992, 954 f.
  • L. Stäger, "Jean-Jacques Hess-von Wyss. January 11, 1866 to April 29, 1949", Asian Studies , Bern 22 (1968), 137-145.

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personal data
SURNAME Hess, Johann Jakob
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hess, Jean Jaques
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss Egyptologist, Assyriologist and Arabist
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1866
PLACE OF BIRTH Freiburg in Üechtland
DATE OF DEATH April 29, 1949
Place of death Zurich