Hans Ehelolf

Hans Ehelolf ( born July 30, 1881 in Hannover, † May 29, 1939 in Berlin) was a German classical scholar and Hittitologist.

Life

Hans Wilhelm Heinrich Ehelolf spent his childhood in Hanover, and made at the Leibniz -Gymnasium graduated from high school. From 1910 he studied Assyriology, Indian and Semitic languages ​​at the University of Marburg with Peter Jensen. In 1911 he studied for a semester Indo-European issues of Indian Studies at the University of Leipzig with Karl Brugmann and Karl Friedrich Geldner. A few days before the start of the First World War in 1914 he received his PhD with Peter Jensen. His dissertation was entitled A sequence of words in the Assyrian - Babylonian principle.

1915 Ehelolf research assistant in Near Eastern department of the Berlin Museum.

On October 15, 1915, he was drafted into the army. He spent his military service as an interpreter for Arabic in the imperial army Orient. On November 9, 1918 he was discharged from the army and began its operations in the museum again.

From 1920 learned Ehelolf Hittite and dealt intensively with the texts from Bogazköy.

Services

In 1928, Hans Ehelolf Boghazkoi the 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 its greatest merits. Since 1928 he taught at the Indology Department, University of Berlin.

Publications (selection)

• Together with B. Landsberger: The altasyrische calendar in ZDMG 74, pp. 216ff.
• A altassyrisches arithmetic book (1922 ).
• Together with F. Sommer: The Hittite Ritual of Papanikri of Comana. Boghazkoi Studies 10 ( 1924).

Honors and Awards

Hans Ehelolf was carrier of the Iron Cross 2nd class and the Turkish Iron Crescent. He received these awards for his achievements in the imperial army.