Hittitology
Study of Hittites From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Hittitology is the study of the Hittites, an ancient Anatolian people that established an empire around Hattusa in the 2nd millennium BCE. It combines aspects of the archaeology, history, philology, and art history of the Hittite civilisation. There are two universities in Turkey with a Hittitology major studies besides some minors and chairs, one of Istanbul University and Ankara University.
A minor programme in Hittitology (B.A.) has recently been created at Philipps-Marburg University, Germany.[1]
List of Hittitologists
A partial list of notable Hittite scholars includes:
- Selim Adalı[2]
- Metin Alparslan[3]
- Vladislav Ardzinba (1945–2010)
- Trevor R. Bryce (born 1940)
- Gary Beckman
- Jeanny Vorys Canby
- Yaşar Coşkun
- Philo H. J. Houwink ten Cate ()
- Birgit Christiansen[4]
- Billie Jean Collins[5]
- Halet Çambel
- Petra Goedegebuure[6]
- Albrecht Goetze (1897–1971)
- Oliver Gurney (1911–2001)
- Hans G. Güterbock (1908–2000)
- Harry A. Hoffner (1934–2015)
- Theo van den Hout[7]
- Bedřich Hrozný (1879–1952)
- Sara Kimball
- Alwin Kloekhorst
- J. G. Macqueen
- Gregory McMahon
- Craig Melchert
- Jared L. Miller[8]
- Alice Mouton[9]
- Andreas Schachner[10]
- Daniel Schwemer[11]
- Itamar Singer (1946–2012)
- Edgar H. Sturtevant (1875–1952)
- Piotr Taracha[12]
- Willemijn Waal
- Kazuhiko Yoshida
- Leonie Zuntz (1908–1942)
- Lord Edwin E. Hitti
See also
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