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  Hittite Cuneiform   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Hrozny at the age of twenty-four had participated in excavations in northern Palestine and had published highly esteemed reports on cuneiform texts.
There was no objective basis for Hrozny's idea which would mean that Indo-Europeans had been dominant in central Anatolia in the middle of the second millennium B.C. Such an idea was contradictory to all that historians of the Near East had learned.
Hrozny, a veritable bloodhound on the trail of an Indo-European language, saw a similarity to the English water, German Wasser, Old Saxon watar.
idcs0100.lib.iup.edu /WestCivI/hittite_cuneiform.htm   (2087 words)

  
 Philology - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Beginning with the sensational publication of the decipherment of the Rosetta Stone by Jean-François Champollion in 1822, a number of individuals attempted to decode the great inscriptions of the ancient world.
Work on the ancient languages of the middle east progressed rapidly, with Hittite decoded in 1915 by Bedřich Hrozny´, and the cuneiform languages of the Behistun Inscription, namely Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian, being decoded by Sir Henry Rawlinson.
The most famous inscriptions, also amongst the most important for what they tell of the ancient mediterranean civilisations, are Linear A, and Linear B.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Philology   (712 words)

  
 Origin of the Indo-European languages: Part VIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
In 1914, Hrozny was sent to Istanbul, where most tablets of Bogazköy written in Arzawa language were located.
Hrozny chose to work on the tablets written in Hittite instead of working on those written with Babylonian characters.
As it was said before, the philologist Bedrich Hrozny in 1915 traced the relationship between Hittite and Indo-European languages.
www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar /english/linguistics/origin8.html   (2997 words)

  
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A Czech linguist, Bedrich Hrozný who specialized in Semitic languages decided to attempt the decipherment of the Hittite cuneiform script.
He was able to visit Istanbul and obtain copies of some of the cuneiform text from Boghaz Keui.
Hrozny recognized the cuneiform ideogram ninda as representing bread.
www.applet-magic.com /hittite.htm   (1134 words)

  
 Societies and Institutes | The Oriental Institute (Prague)
Hotowetz became the first President of the Institute, with Hrozny as Vice-President, a measure of the relative importance of the two sections.
Orderly administrative changes in 1938 (Bedrich Hrozny succeeded Rudolph Hotowek as President) were almost immediately overtaken by events.
Vincenc Lesna continued as Director, with Hrozny as the head of the Steering Committee, and Prusek as his Deputy.
www.umass.edu /wsp/sinology/societies/orinst.html   (1040 words)

  
 JJP - vol. 6   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Bedrich HROZNÝ, Le mot Tabarupaluta des inscriptions de Pylos, p.
Bedrich HROZNÝ, New contribution to knowledge of the religious, social and public conditions on the Pelopennesus (E.L. Benett, The Pylos tablets, Preliminary transciption), pp.
Bedrich HROZNÝ, Une inscription de Pylos (E.L. Benett, Pylos tablets, p.
pomoerium.com /contents/journal_of_juristic_papyrology/jjp_6.htm   (151 words)

  
 Mailbox - 05-03-2006 - Radio Prague
He was the first to decipher Hittite cuneiform writing and argue and substantiate that the language and grammar were Indo-European.
"The answer is Bedrich Hrozný, a Czech professor at the University of Vienna, who in 1916 deciphered what the Hittite language sounded like and confirmed that it was indeed Indo-European.
"The language of the Hattusa tablets was deciphered by Czech linguist Bedrich Hrozny.
www.radio.cz /en/issue/76395   (978 words)

  
 Origin of the Indo-European languages: Part I
Its official language was one of the early Indo-European tongues being written.
At the beginning of the twentieth century, Bedrich Hrozný (a linguist belonging to the University of Vienna and then to the Caroline University of Prague), deciphered the Hittite cuneiform inscriptions on clay tablets found in the library of Hattusas (the capital city) --125 miles to the East of Ankara--.
Some small boards with cuneiforms inscriptions in 2 similar languages (Luwiuan and Palaic, something like that, it is difficult to translate these terms into English, so, if you know click here and e-mail me) were also found there.
www.sanskrit-sanscrito.com.ar /english/linguistics/origin1.html   (1966 words)

  
 Symbolism
It was translated early in this century by the Czech scholar Bedrich Hrozny, who showed, to the surprise of most linguists, that the language was Indo-European, although it maintained certain features that had been lost in all the other Indo-European languages.
Hittite used a form of Akkadian cuneiform writing, the knowledge of which was most helpful to Hrozny in translating.
The written language contains numerous loan words from Luwian, Hattic, and Hurrian and also seems to use, in a random fashion, vocabulary from both Sumerian and Akkadian.
www.elohim-god.net /symbolism.htm   (4440 words)

  
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My understanding is that Hrozny was the one who deciphered Hittite and no one can take that away from him.
The only work I have by Hrozny is his article "Ueber das hethitischen Probleme", except that I am probably spelling it all wrong from memory.
I never got around to reading it and was also never sure it was the main work to read by him on his decipherment of Hittite.
oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1998/v1998.n044   (1737 words)

  
 The language of threatening letters to King David | MetaFilter
July 29, 2003 2:21 PM ech linguist Bedrich Hrozny first identified Hittite in 1915.
Here's a thrilling account of Hrozny's decipherment and discovery that it was an IE language; this sidebar is interesting:
The name "Hittite" was given to this language by modern scholars as being the official language of the Land of Hatti, and has been universally accepted; but it is strictly speaking incorrect.
www.metafilter.com /comments.mefi/27330   (1208 words)

  
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An integral part of Hrozny's late claims (your book may be a translation of his monograph-sized contributions to Archiv Orientalni from ca.
Since a few years later Michael Ventris achieved the actual decipherment of Linear B, it was then clear that Hrozny's rather unlikely suggestion was not valid.
Subject: Re: ane Hrozny's work Dear Bonnie L Johnston, Allen Adler and Peter T. Daniels, to the memory of Bedrich/Friedrich Hrozny I would like to recall his valuable contributions in the thirties, together with T. Bossert, E. Forrer, I.J. Gelb and Piero Meriggi, to the decipherment of the 'Hittite' hieroglyphic writing.
oi.uchicago.edu /OI/ANE/ANE-DIGEST/1998/v1998.n045   (1759 words)

  
 Find in a Library: Archiv orientální
by Bedrich Hrozný; Ceskoslovenský orientální ústav v Praze.
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 Amazon.com -zShops: Ancient History of Western Asia, India and Crete by Hrozny, Bedrich   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
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 goZone : Search for anatolian   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31)
Illustrated article on the teaching of Hittite at Davidson College (Davidson, NC, USA), which also provides general background on the language and its history.
An account of Bedrich Hrozny's decipherment of Hittite and discovery of its Indo-European affiliation.
Project of the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, started in 1975 by Harry A. Hoffner and Hans G. Güterbock aiming at the eventual publication of a complete dictionary of the Hittite language.
www.gozone.com /search.htm?f_q=anatolian&f_zone=tech   (173 words)

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