Hans Wilhelm Heinrich Ehelolf (July 30, 1881 May 29, 1939) was a German

Germany

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 Hittitologist

Hittitologist

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. Born in Hanover

Hanover

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, Lower Saxony

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. He began his oriental studies in Marburg

Marburg

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, focusing on Assyriology

Assyriology

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, Semitic linguistics, Indology

Indology

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, and Biblical exegesis. He wrote a PhD thesis entitled Ein Wortfolgeprinzip im Assyrisch-Babylonischen and received his degree on July 29, 1914. Ehelolf served in World War I

World War I

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 and was awarded the Iron Cross

Iron Cross

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 2nd Class and the Turkish Iron Crescent.

Works

• Der altasyrische Kalender; Zusammen mit B. Landsberger, in ZDMG 74, S. 216ff.
• Ein altasyrisches Rechenbuch. Übersetzt von Hans Ehelolf (1922)
• Wettlauf und Spiel im hethitischen Ritual, in Sitzungsberichteder preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften (1925)
• Das hethitische Ritual der Papanikri von Komana; Zusammen mit F. Sommer, Boghazköi-Studien Heft 10 (1924)