Hans Ehelolf


Hans Wilhelm Heinrich Ehelolf was a German Hittitologist.
He was born in Hanover, Lower Saxony. He began his oriental studies in Marburg, focusing on Assyriology, Semitic linguistics, Indology, and Biblical exegesis. He wrote a PhD thesis titled Ein Wortfolgeprinzip im Assyrisch-Babylonischen and received his degree on July 29, 1914. Ehelolf served in World War I and was awarded the Iron Cross 2nd Class and the Turkish Iron Crescent.

Works

  • Der altassyrische Kalender; with Benno Landsberger, in ZDMG 74, S. 216ff.
  • Ein altassyrisches Rechtsbuch; translation by Hans Ehelolf.
  • Wettlauf und Spiel im hethitischen Ritual, in Sitzungsberichteder preussischen Akademie der Wissenschaften.
  • Das hethitische Ritual des Papanikri von Komana; with Ferdinand Sommer, Boghazköi-Studien, Book 10.