From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Johann Jakob Hess
Johann Jakob Hess
Johann Jakob Hess (Freiburg im Üechtland, Switzerland,
11 January 1866 - Zurich, Switzerland, 29 April 1949), was
a Swiss Egyptologist and Assyriologist and an expert in
other Oriental languages.
Personal life
Hess was born on 11 January 1866, the son of window
and door maker Casimir Balthasar Jacques Hess and
Josephine-Marie, née Rudolf, in Freiburg im Üechtland,
Switzerland. He graduated at Berlin and Strassburg in
Egyptology, Assyriology, Semitic languages and Sinology,
working for his Doctoral degree between 1889 and 1891,
working as a Privatdozent, teaching Egyptology and The demotic language scripts on the Rosetta Stone, year 196
Assyriology between 1891 and 1908 at the Swiss Univer- BC, under Ptolemy V of Egypt
sity of Freiburg. This teaching position gave him the op-
portunity of traveling on leave to Egypt and Nubia for Further reading
four years settling in Cairo while doing jobs for the Bri-
tish Survey in the British Bureau in Egypt. He returned • Literature from and about Johann Jakob Hess, a.k.a.
to Switzerland in 1918, (Orientalisches Seminar - معهد Jean Jacques Hess in Katalog der Deutschen
)االستشراقbeing promoted to Emeritus Professor in 1936, Nationalbibliothek
aged 70. He was married twice and died at Zurich on 29 • Hess, Johann Jakob im Historischen Lexikon der Schweiz
April 1949, aged 83. Persondata
Name Hess, Johann Jakob
Some published works by Jo- Alternative names
hann Jakob Hess Short description
Date of birth 11 January 1866
• Beduinennamen aus Zentralarabien. Heidelberg :
Place of birth
Winter, 1912 . Heidelberger Akademie der
Wissenschaften: Sitzungsberichte der Heidelberger Date of death 29 April 1949
Akademie der Wissenschaften, Philosophisch- Place of death
Historische Klasse ; Jg. 1912, Abh. 19.
• Von den Beduinen des inneren Arabiens. Zurich, Niehaus
Ed. 1938, 177 pages. Edit.:Lieder, Sitten & Gebräuche.
• Der demotische Teil der dreisprachigen Inschrift von
Rosette. In German. (English: The demotic language side
of the three languages inscribed in the Rosetta Stone).
Universitaets-Buchhandlung, B. Veith, 1902 - 99
pages. Available at the Macquarie University, Sidney,
Australia, dated 1888. See: http://trove.nla.gov.au/
book/result?q&l-decade=188&l-language=Egyptian
References
• http://www.ori.uzh.ch/isap/isapchecklist.html
• Neue Zürcher Zeitung, 28. Mai 1949; Obituary notice
• Histoire de l’Université de Fribourg, Suisse.
1889–1989, 1, 1991, 67, 116, 119; 3, 1992, 954 f.
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From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Johann Jakob Hess
Categories:
• Egyptologists
• Orientalists
• University of Zurich
• Swiss people
• 1866 births
• 1949 deaths
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