Hans Bauer (semitist)

Hans Bauer (16 January 1878 – 3 June 1937) was a German semitist and professor at the University of Halle in the early 1930s. He was involved in the decipherment of Ugaritic cuneiform on clay tablets discovered in Ras Shamra, Ugarit.^[1][2]

References

1. James B. Pritchard Archaeology and the Old Testament, in Google Books
2. Allan D. Corré, Anatomy of a Decipherment, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee Archived 2020-10-04 at the Wayback Machine

Further reading

• Holger Gzella: "Hans Bauer und die historisch-vergleichende Semitistik," in: Otto Jastrow et al. (eds.), Studien zur Semitistik und Arabistik. Festschrift für Hartmut Bobzin zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2008, pp. 141–182.