Johann Jakob Hess

Johann Jakob Hess ( Jean Jacques Hess, born January 11, 1866 in Fribourg, † April 29, 1949 in Zurich ) was a Swiss Egyptologist, Assyriologist and Arabist.

Johann Jakob Hess was born on 11 January 1866 as the son of a master carpenter and commercial travelers Casimir Balthazar Jacques Hess and Josephine -Marie, born Rudolf, in Freiburg. Hess studied in Berlin and Strasbourg Egyptology, Assyriology, Semitic Studies and Sinology. After his PhD he has worked from 1889 to 1891 as a lecturer and from 1891 to 1908 as a professor of Egyptology and Assyriology at the University of Freiburg. This teaching was interrupted by a trip to Egypt and Nubia as well as a four -year stay in Cairo. From 1908 Hess worked in the Survey Department of the British government in Egypt. In addition, he toured the Middle East and distinguished himself as a connoisseur of historical geography and toponymy. In 1918 he was appointed professor at the University of Zurich, where he was until his retirement in 1936 worked on a Professor of "living Oriental Languages ​​and Islamic cultures." Hess led the modern dialectology in the Arabic.

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

Publications

• The Demotic part of the trilingual inscription of Rosetta. 1902
• Bedouin name from Central Arabia. Proceedings of the Heidelberg Academy of Sciences of Humanities class in 1912, Dep 19, Winter, Heidelberg, 1912.
• Of the Bedouins of the interior of Arabia. Stories, songs, customs and traditions. Niehaus, Zurich 1938.