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  Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Winckler,   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Winckler, Hugo WINCKLER, HUGO [Winckler, Hugo], 1863-1913, German Orientalist.
A professor at the Univ. of Berlin, Winckler was noted for his archaeological work.
Onn Winckler: Arab Political Demography, Volume One: Population Growth and Natalist Policies.(Arab Political Demography: Population Growth and Natalist Policies, vol.
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 Origin of the Indo-European languages: Part VIII   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This induced Winckler to think that he was excavating the capital city of the Hittite empire.
Winckler had a tablet on which the same conditions and terms of the aforesaid pact were stated, but this time in cuneiform characters and Babylonian language.
The East German Society* which had sponsored the Winckler's expedition to the Hittite capital city, put in 1913 a group of Assyriologists to work on the tablets (among them there was a professor of Assyriology of the University of Vienna, the Czechoslovakian Bedrich Hrozny).
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 JewishEncyclopedia.com - JONAH.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This identity has recently been denied by Hugo Winckler ("Altorientalische Forschungen," 1900, ii.
Winckler retracted his opinion in "Allgemeine Evangelisch-Lutherische Kirchenzeitung," 1903, p.
The tribal affinities of Jonah constitute a point of controversy; generally assigned to Asher, he is claimed for Zebulun by R. Johanan on the strength of his place of residence (II Kings xiv.
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 Hattusa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
But only Hugo Winckler, the citizen of Berlin Assyriologe and cuneiform script researcher, made itself 1906 an excavation on the way, which was the basis the hypothesis that it concerned with the ruins the old Hethiterhauptstadt Hattuscha.
Winckler as well as late Bittel discovered clay/tone board archives of the hethitischen kings, who contained among other things also the international correspondence and administration.
The German Orientgesellschaft began with the excavations in the year 1906 under Hugo Winckler and Theodor Makridi Bey.
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 The Development, Heyday, and Demise of Panbabylonism
The ideas of the German Assyriologist Hugo Winckler (1863-1913), a Cuneiform Philologist and Professor at the University of Berlin, were to lead to the school of thought termed Panbabylonism.
Though the founder of the main Panbabylonist movement was Hugo Winckler its short though virulent popularity was largely due to the writings of the German Archaeologist Alfred Jeremias.
Winckler contended that the zodiac was recognised when the spring equinoctial constellation was the "Twins" circa 4000 BCE.
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 MESOPOTAMIA IN THE AGE OF THE EMPIRES
Winckler would sit in his tent all day while hired Turkish natives would bring in fragments of inscriptions.
Winckler would then either translate it, or if the language was unknown, he would put it to the side for later study.
On the 20th day of the expedition, Winckler was brought a complete tablet written in Akkadian, a language which he could easily read.
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Assyria may have passed to Lydia the very conception of tyranny: the Assyrian empire was based on the might of the mercenary army and in turn an ever-expanding empire was made necessary by the need of providing pay for the mercenary army.
Hugo Winckler states: "Assyria's power rested, therefore, upon her army.
Hugo Winckler, The History of Babylonia and Assyria (New York, 1907), p.
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 Archaeology and the Old Testament
German cuneiform expert Hugo Winckler investigated the tablets and began his own expedition at the site in 1906.
Winckler's excavations uncovered five temples, a fortified citadel and several massive sculptures.
Less than a decade after Winckler's find, Czech scholar Bedrich Hronzny proved the Hittite language is an early relative of the Indo-European languages of Greek, Latin, French, German, and English.
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 Hittite language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
His argument was not generally accepted, partly because the morphological similarities he observed between Hittite and Indo-European can be found outside of Indo-European, and partly because the interpretation of the letters was justifiably regarded as uncertain.
Knudtzon was shown definitively to have been correct when a large quantity of tablets written in the familiar Akkadian cuneiform script but in an unknown language was discovered by Hugo Winckler at the modern village of Boğazköy, the former site of Hattusas, the Hittite capital.
Based on a study of this extensive material, Bedřich Hrozný succeeded in analyzing the language.
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 Hattusa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Archaeological work is still carried out by the German Institute of Archaeology (Deutsche Archäologische Institut).
Hugo Winckler and Theodor Makridi Bey conducted the first excavations 1906, 1907 and 1911-13.
One of its most important discoveries has been the cuneiform royal archives of clay tablets, consisting of official correspondence and contracts, as well as legal codes, procedures for cult ceremony, oracular prophecies and literature of the ancient Near East.
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 Kadesh Treaty
The treaty of Kadesh is the earliest known parity peace-treaty that had been concluded between the Hittite king Hattusilis III and the Egyptian pharah Ramses II, and was written in Akkadian: the international language of the day, in 1269 B.C. Three main versions of the treaty written in Akkadian language is known to exist.
Of the treaty-documents of Kadesh discovered at the (capital city) Bogazkoy-Buyukkale in 1906 by Hugo Winckler and Teodor Makridy as a result of a joint expedition of Turkey and Germany, one of them presently is in Berlin and two of them are in the Istanbul Archaeological Museums.
The Egyptian version was carved upon the walls of the temple of Amon at Karnak and of the Ramesseum edited to give greater prominence to the role of Egypt in granting peace.
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 AllRefer.com - Hugo Winckler (Archaeology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
AllRefer.com - Hugo Winckler (Archaeology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Hugo Winckler[hOO´gO vingk´lur] Pronunciation Key, 1863–1913, German Orientalist.
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 Hittites Hamath Tell el-Amarna tablets
While there were many tablets in Arzawa, the fragments he found most helpful were those in Akkadian.
One well-preserved tablet was the text of a treaty which Winckler had seen inscribed on the walls of the temple at Karnak in Egypt and at the Ramesseum, Ramse's mortuary temple.
The Babylonian texts did not enable Winckler to translate the Arzawa inscriptions but they did provide clues to the reigns of the Hittite kings and an outline of Hittite history.
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 Views From The Watch Tower
If only read from the humorous standpoint, it is doubtful whether any book could afford a merrier half-hour than one of the latest achievements of Prof.
Hugo Winckler--two volumes in which he finally dissolves into myth the small portion of Jewish history which had been mercifully left to us.
But to Professor Winckler he is an obvious astral myth, for in the 43d chapter of Genesis, verse 25, does he not come at noon?
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 KNLS Author's Journal - Humble 03
century, Hugo Winckler was excavating in central Turkey, about 100 miles east of Ankara, and he found Hattusas, the long-forgotten capital of the Hittite empire.
Winckler uncovered city walls and gates, a citadel, temples, sculptures, gold artifacts and thousands of clay tablets.
Now that the Hittite language has been deciphered, we can write their history.
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 "When Life is Over" - Section 1
But one hundred years ago, there was no archeological evidence to prove it ever existed.
But in 1906, Hugo Winckler uncovered a library of 10,000 clay tablets which fully documented the lost Hittite Empire.
Hundreds of examples could be given, but the fact is, archeological discoveries constantly confirm what the Bible declared long ago, and not one archaeological discovery has ever proven any Biblical reference to be untrue.
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 Printable version - Hidden Hittites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
However, the year 1876 saw many people changing their minds about both the Hittites and the Bible.
An archaeologist, Hugo Winckler, visited a city in Turkey named Boghaz-Köy.
Upon excavating portions of the city, he found a breathtaking number of human artifacts—including five temples, many sculptures, and a fortified castle.
www.apologeticspress.org /modules.php?name=Print&cat=3&itemid=1750   (328 words)

  
 Astrology: Between Religion and the Empirical
She is quite reminiscent, down to the details, of the Mesopotamian Ishtar, who corresponds to the planet Venus and the Egyptian Isis, and who is also connected with the moon.
Hermann Gunkel and Hugo Gressmann, two representatives of the "religious history school" (Religionsgeschichtliche Schule) in Göttingen, have dealt with the influence of Mesopotamian astrology on the New Testament and especially on the Revelation of John [66].
It has also been handed down to us that in the early period of the church, but also in the Middle Ages and early modern period, the twelve disciples of Christ are identified with the twelve signs of the zodiac [67].
www.esoteric.msu.edu /VolumeIV/astrology.htm   (17233 words)

  
 PaulBirston.com
God promised to destroy the Hittites and they were gone by about 1200 B.C. For many years people denied their existence until the late 19th century when Hittite monuments were discovered by A. Sayce of Oxford.
In 1906, Hugo Winckler of Berlin found the remains of the Hittite capital, including an archive of clay tablets containing important military documents.
Archaeology confirmed that what the Bible said is true.
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 An essential entry book for the Hittites | The Hittites | O. R. Gurney   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
The Old Testament told something about the Hittites but this civilizations' existence remained an enigma until the early 20th century.
Since that time we learned a lot about this Indo-European people, especially after Hugo Winckler's excavations in Hattusa (Bogazkoy) of Central Anatolia.
Oliver Robert Gurney, a well known hittitology specialist, presents us a rich summary of both Hittite history and culture in this excellent work.
www.very-clever.com /information/daedahqdau   (1060 words)

  
 Areopagus Proclamation, May 1996 [AIIA Institute]
If the Scripture says it, it must be true.
Sure enough--in 1906 a German named Hugo Winckler was digging in the land we now call Turkey.
He found the city that was the Hittite capital.
aiia.christiananswers.net /thoughtletters/ap-vol6-no8.html   (657 words)

  
 Classics in the History of Psychology -- Freud (1900) Chapter 2
Since these relationships must be lost by translation into our language, the incomprehensibility of the equivalents in our popular "dream-books" is hereby explained.
Information as to the extraordinary significance of puns and the play upon words in the old Oriental cultures may be found in the writings of Hugo Winckler.
The finest example of a dream-interpretation which has come down to us from antiquity is based on a play upon words.
psychclassics.yorku.ca /Freud/Dreams/dreams2.htm   (8457 words)

  
 Even Homer Sometimes Nods : ChristianCourier.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
This writer cannot conclude this section without acknowledging his own fallibility.
When he penned his little book, Biblical Studies in the Light of Archaeology (1982), he stated that “Henry Winckler” of the German Orient Society discovered the ancient Hittite capital of Boghazkoy.
That was a “slip.” It was “Hugo” Winckler, not “Henry.” Henry Winkler was the “fonz” of the old “Happy Days” TV show!
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 The Documentary Hypothesis - Its Effect On The Torah And The Qur'an
This negative argument that since the Hittites were not mentioned outside of the Bible, then the Bible must be wrong, was still being taught to me at Wooster College in 1946, even though Hugo Winckler had discovered the Hittite capital of Boghaz-koi in central Turkey in 1906.
In an archive of clay tablets, Winckler found a military treaty between the Hittites and the Egyptians written nearly 1300 years before Christ.
In addition an Egyptian tablet has been found which records a fierce battle between Ramses II and the Hittites at Kadesh on the Orontes river in 1287 B.C.[14]
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 Geography, Hittites, Other kingdoms
Amarna archives of Akhenaten show correspondence between the pharaoh and the Hittites mostly in cuneiform Akkadian (1887)
excavations begin in 1906 under Hugo Winckler and the royal archives are soon found; cuneiform (Akkadian and an unknown language)
Bedrich Hrozny, a Czech scholar, during the first world war
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 “Salvation’s Benefits Package”   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Until 100 years ago there was no archaeological evidence to substantiate the Biblical claim that the Hittites existed.
In 1906, Hugo Winckler uncovered a huge library of 10,000 clay tablets, which completely documented the lost Hittite Empire.
We now know that at the height of the Hittite Empire it rivaled Egypt and Assyria in it glory and power.
www.lfbclongview.org /LetGodBeTrueButWhatIsTruth.htm   (4283 words)

  
 History of Constellation and Star Names
The author was later a Panbabylonist independent of the Panbabylonist school of Hugo Winckler and Alfred Jeremias.]
The German Assyriologist, Ernst Weidner (1891-1976) was 20 years old when this book was published.
See the (German-language) biographical tribute "Ernst Weidner - Gelehrter und Mensch," by Kurt Jaritz in Die Rolle der Astronomie in den Kulturen Mesopotamiens, edited by Hannes Galter and Bernhard Scholz (1993), Pages 11-20; and the (German-language) obituary by Wolfram von Soden in Zeitschrift für Assyriologie und Vorderasiatische Archäologie, Volume 66, 1976, Pages 153-155.
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