Johannes Friedrich (linguist)
Johannes Friedrich ( born August 27, 1893 in Schönefeld in Leipzig, † August 12, 1972 in Berlin) was a German orientalist.
Life
He studied at the University of Leipzig, among others Franz Studniczka, John Kromayer, Max Heinze, Emil Jungmann and Eduard Sievers Indo-European Studies, Classical Philology and Semitic Studies and in 1916 Dr. phil. doctorate. 1917-1924 he worked as a school teacher. In 1924 he completed his habilitation at the University of Leipzig. In 1925 he received a teaching assignment for " altkleinasiatische languages ", In 1928 he became an assistant. Since 25 March 1929, he has held a non -scheduled associate professor at the University of Leipzig. In November 1933, he was one of the signatories of the commitment of the professors at German universities and colleges to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi state. Since 30 April 1936 he was Professor of Oriental Philology. Since 1940 he was a member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences.
Elected on 30 July 1948 in free choice, Frederick was from October 31 1948 to October 31, 1949 Rector of the University of Leipzig.
On September 30, 1950, he left the University of Leipzig and went to the Free University of Berlin.
Publications (selection)
- Deminutivbildungen with non deminutiver importance, especially in Greek and Latin. Breitkopf & Härtel, Leipzig 1916 ( = dissertation).
- Hittite studies. 50 p is an excerpt from the journal of Assyriology and related history, New Series No. 1 (35 ) and 2 ( 36), de Gruyter & Co, Berlin 1924
- Small Asian language monuments. Berlin 1932
- Treaties of the Hatti Empire in Hittite language II releases the Asian front -Egyptian Society 34 Hinrichs, Leipzig 1930 ( = habilitation thesis )
- Decipherment of lost scripts and languages , 2nd revised edition, Springer- Verlag, Berlin, Göttingen, New York 1966
- A Hittite cuneiform tablet with Minoan Linear characters. In: Minos: Revista de Filología egea. No. 3, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Salamanca, 1954, ISSN 0544-3733, pp. 5-7 ( PDF, 1820.71 KB, online, accessed on 14 February 2014).