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Epigrapher · Scholar

Ernst Sittig

fl. 1914–1954 · Germany

Professor of linguistics, Tuebingen, active 1914–1954.

Life and work

  1. April 1914
    Followed Ohnefalsch-Richter's tracks in western Cyprus; Buchholz quotes him: 'End of April 1914 my Greek host guided me to Limni...' (citing Historia 9, 1960, 244f.; Masson ICS 185f.).

    LimniBuchholz 1989

  2. 1945–1952
    Taught Franz Georg Maier linguistics at Tuebingen and recommended him and Joerg Schaefer to T. B. Mitford, so that Maier joined the British Kouklia Expedition (1952-55).

    TuebingenHermary 2014

  3. 1954
    Proposed a Greek reading of the 1953 Enkomi Cypro-Minoan tablet as a record of the settlement of a boundary dispute (La Nouvelle Clio 1954, 470 f.); Ventris had found that the text would not answer to Linear B-style Greek.

    Megaw 1955

Connections

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Scholarship

Sources

  1. 1.H.-G. Buchholz (1989). “Max Ohnefalsch-Richter als Archäologe auf Zypern”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 11-12, 3-27.
  2. 2.A. H. S. Megaw (1955). “Archaeology in Cyprus, 1955”. Archaeological Reports 2, 41-46. Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies.
  3. 3.A. Hermary (2014). “In memoriam : Franz-Georg Maier (1926-2014)”. Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 44, 11-16. Online
  4. 4.T. B. Mitford (1971). The Inscriptions of Kourion. Philadelphia, American Philosophical Society.
  5. 5.E. Sittig (1924). Zeitschrift fuer vergleichende Sprachforschung 54, 194 ff..
  6. 6.E. Sittig (1932). in F. Sommer, Die Ahhijava-Urkunden, 368 n. 1.
  7. 7.E. Sittig (1954). “Sprachen die Minoer Griechisch?”. Minos 3, 87-99.