Information AboutBedrich Hrozny |
| CATEGORIES ABOUT BEDřICH HROZNý | |
| 1879 births | |
| 1952 deaths | |
| philologists | |
| czech linguists | |
| czech archaeologists | |
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Hrozný was born in Lysá Nad Labem , Bohemia , Austria-Hungary . In the town of Kolín he learned Hebrew and Arabic , at the University Of Vienna Akkadian , Aramaic , Ethiopian , Sumerian and Sanskrit , as well as the Cuneiform used in Asia Minor , Mesopotamia and Persia . He also studied orientalism at Berlin University . In 1906, at Hattusa (modern Boğazköy) 150 km NE from Ankara , a German expedition found the archives of the Hittite kings in cuneiform, but in an unknown language. In the middle of the First World War Hrozný published a description of the language and its grammar showing that it was a Indo-European language. In 1925 Hrozný discovered 1000 cuneiform tablets containing contracts and letters of Assyria n merchants. Later he tried to decipher hieroglyphic script used by Hittites and scripts used in ancient India and Crete but failed in his effort. A heart attack in 1944 ended his scientific work. |
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