Emil Forrer

…was first advocated by Assyriologist Emil Forrer in 1922. As with Old Hittite, part of the Palaic material is preserved on tablets written in a hand known as “old ductus.” The knowledge of the limited vocabulary leaves much to be desired, but, despite some unmistakable influences from the non-Indo-European Hattian,…

…Cuneiform Luwian was done by Emil Forrer in 1922. New text materials were published in 1953, closely followed by both grammatical and vocabulary studies as well as a standard dictionary of the language (1959). The first attempts to decipher Hieroglyphic Luwian, made by archaeologist Archibald H. Sayce in the 1880s,…

…with the work of Assyriologist Emil Forrer. In 1935 Hans G. Güterbock, a pioneering Hittitologist, published a large group of texts containing Hattian material, including many of the Hattian texts stemming from excavations led by archaeologists Hugo Winckler and Theodore Makridi at the ancient Hittite city of Hattusa (near modern…