Hans Bauer (16 January 1878 – 3 June 1937) was a German
semitist and professor at the
University of Halle
Martin Luther University of Halle-Wittenberg (german: Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg), also referred to as MLU, is a public, research-oriented university in the cities of Halle and Wittenberg and the largest and oldest university in ...
in the early 1930s. He was involved in the
decipherment of
Ugaritic
Ugaritic () is an extinct Northwest Semitic language, classified by some as a dialect of the Amorite language and so the only known Amorite dialect preserved in writing. It is known through the Ugaritic texts discovered by French archaeologist ...
cuneiform
Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Middle East. The script was in active use from the early Bronze Age until the beginning of the Common Era. It is named for the characteristic wedge-sh ...
on
clay tablet
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets ( Akkadian ) were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age.
Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a sty ...
s discovered in
Ras Shamra
)
, image =Ugarit Corbel.jpg
, image_size=300
, alt =
, caption = Entrance to the Royal Palace of Ugarit
, map_type = Near East#Syria
, map_alt =
, map_size = 300
, relief=yes
, location = Latakia Governorate, Syria
, region = ...
,
Ugarit
)
, image =Ugarit Corbel.jpg
, image_size=300
, alt =
, caption = Entrance to the Royal Palace of Ugarit
, map_type = Near East#Syria
, map_alt =
, map_size = 300
, relief=yes
, location = Latakia Governorate, Syria
, region = ...
.
[Allan D. Corré, ''Anatomy of a Decipherment'', University of Wisconsin–Milwauke]
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References
Further reading
* Holger Gzella: "Hans Bauer und die historisch-vergleichende Semitistik," in: Otto Jastrow et al. (eds.), ''Studien zur Semitistik und Arabistik. Festschrift für Hartmut Bobzin zum 60. Geburtstag.'' Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2008, pp. 141–182.
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German scholars
Semiticists
1878 births
1937 deaths