Johann Jakob Hess (Egyptologist)
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.
Web links
- Literature by and about Jean Jaques Hess in the catalog of the German National Library
- Andrea Weibel: Hess, Johann Jakob. In: Historical Lexicon of Switzerland .
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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 |