Hittitologist
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A Hittitologist is an archaeologist, historian, linguist, or art historian who specialises in the study of the Ancient Hittites
and their Near Eastern Empire which was based in Hattusa
in modern day Anatolia
.
A partial list of notable Hittite scholars includes:
Hittites
The Hittites were a Bronze Age people of Anatolia.They established a kingdom centered at Hattusa in north-central Anatolia c. the 18th century BC. The Hittite empire reached its height c...
and their Near Eastern Empire which was based in Hattusa
Hattusa
Hattusa was the capital of the Hittite Empire in the late Bronze Age. It was located near modern Boğazkale, Turkey, within the great loop of the Kızıl River ....
in modern day Anatolia
Anatolia
Anatolia is a geographic and historical term denoting the westernmost protrusion of Asia, comprising the majority of the Republic of Turkey...
.
A partial list of notable Hittite scholars includes:
- Trevor R. BryceTrevor R. BryceTrevor Robert Bryce is a Hittitologist specializing in ancient and classical Near-eastern history. He lives in Brisbane in a small unit where he is semi retired. He has two children and five grand kids. His son is a widely acclaimed Doctor who has produced documentaries associated with Aboriginal...
(born 1940) - Gary BeckmanGary BeckmanProfessor Gary Beckman is a noted Hittitologist and Professor of Hittite and Mesopotamian Studies from the University of Michigan. He has written several books on the Ancient Hittites: his publication 'Hittite Diplomatic Texts' and 'Hittite Myths' were both republished twice—in 1991 and 1999...
- Albrecht GoetzeAlbrecht GoetzeAlbrecht Goetze was a German-American Hittitologist.Goetze was Professor of Semitic languages at the University of Marburg when the Nazi regime came to power in 1933. It was through the initiative of Edgar H. Sturtevant that Goetze was invited to Yale University in 1934, a move that was to prove...
(1897–1971) - Oliver GurneyOliver GurneyOliver Robert Gurney was an English Assyriologist and a leading scholar of the Hittites.- Early life :Gurney was born in London in 1911, the son of Robert Gurney, a zoologist, and a nephew of the archaeologist John Garstang...
(1911–2001) - Bedřich HroznýBedrich HroznýBedřich Hrozný was a Czech orientalist and linguist. He deciphered the ancient Hittite language, identified it as an Indo-European language and laid the groundwork for the development of Hittitology. Though of Czech origin, he published his work in German or French.Hrozný was born in Lysá nad...
(1879–1952) - Edgar H. SturtevantEdgar H. Sturtevant-Biography:Sturtevant was born in Jacksonville, Illinois, the older brother of Alfred Sturtevant. He studied at the University of Chicago receiving there in 1901 a Ph.D. with a dissertation on Latin case forms. He became an assistant professor of classical philology at Columbia University in New...
(1875–1952) - Houwink ten Cate
- Jared L. Miller
- Hans G. Güterbock (1908–2000)
- Craig MelchertCraig MelchertH. Craig Melchert is a linguist known particularly for his work on the Anatolian branch of Indo-European. He received his B.A. in German from Michigan State University in 1967 and his Ph.D. in Linguistics from Harvard University in 1977. From 1968 to 1972 he served in the United States Air Force,...
- Alwin KloekhorstAlwin KloekhorstAlwin Kloekhorst is a Dutch linguist, Indo-Europeanist and Hittitologist.He received his Ph.D. in 2007 at the University of Leiden with the thesis on Hittite. In over 1200 pages his dissertation describes the history of Hittite in the light of its Indo-European origin. It consists of two parts...
- Nicolás Cruz