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Ignace Gelb
Born
(1907-10-14)October 14, 1907
Tarnau, Galicia and Lodomeria, Austria-Hungary (now Poland)
Died
December 22, 1985(1985-12-22) (aged 78)
Chicago, Illinois, U.S.
Nationality
Polish-American
Alma mater
University of Rome
Occupations
Ancient historian
Assyriologist
Known for
Study of writing systems
Grammatology
Ignace Jay Gelb (October 14, 1907 – December 22, 1985) was a Polish-American ancient historian and Assyriologist who pioneered the scientific study of writing systems.
Ignace Jay Gelb (October 14, 1907 – December 22, 1985) was a Polish-American ancient historian and Assyriologist who pioneered the scientific study of...
that a system like Aramaic must be either a syllabary, as argued by IgnaceGelb, or an incomplete or deficient alphabet, as most other writers had said...
excavations had revealed nothing on the same scale. In agreement with IgnaceGelb's theories on the subject of all inhabited centers in Syria of the same...
systems or scripts. This usage was first elucidated in English by linguist IgnaceGelb in his 1952 book A Study of Writing. The equivalent word is recorded...
graphemes. At the beginning of the development of this area of linguistics, IgnaceGelb coined the term grammatology for this discipline; later some scholars...
begun in 1921 by J. H. Breasted, and continued by Edward Chiera and IgnaceGelb, with the first volume published in 1956. Erica Reiner as editor-in-charge...
According to a theory proposed by IgnaceGelb, the Kish civilization encompassed the sites of Ebla and Mari in the Levant, Nagar in the north, and the...
or Kish tradition is a concept created by IgnaceGelb and discarded by more recent scholarship, which Gelb placed in what he called the early East Semitic...
governor of Urartu. The Assyriologist IgnaceGelb added that the name of Antarii̯a is likely of Hurrian origin. Gelb, Ignace (1944). Hurrians and Subarians (PDF)...
the origin of the alphabet. Many classical scholars, such as historian IgnaceGelb, credit the Ancient Greeks for creating the first alphabetic system (c...
was sometimes written logographically as dPA and Hanish's as dLUGAL. IgnaceGelb proposed that their names were derived from the Akkadian words šullatum...
Ilabrat's name, including good of (the land/city) Iabrat" (suggested by IgnaceGelb) and "tutelary god of the simple people"(suggested by Thorkild Jacobsen)...
in reading the script. In the 1930s, it was partially deciphered by IgnaceGelb, Piero Meriggi, Emil Forrer, and Bedřich Hrozný. Its language was confirmed...
1955), linguist who translated and annotated of the Epic of Gilgamesh. IgnaceGelb (Polish, American, 1907–1985), linguist who published editions of Akkadian...
116. Gelb 1938, p. 201. Gelb 1938, p. 202. Hutter-Braunsar 2019, p. 518. Hutter-Braunsar 2019, p. 527. Sibbing-Plantholt 2022, p. 112. Gelb, Ignace J. (1938)...
of Nikarawa with Ninkarrak has a long history in modern scholarship. IgnaceGelb already proposed it in his translation of the Carchemish inscription...
known. The original publication by the Polish-American Assyrologist IgnaceGelb only says that the fragment was found at Veliisa (now called Yaylayolu)...
History of music theory during the 15th century Near Eastern Studies IgnaceGelb University of Chicago Moshe Greenberg University of Pennsylvania George...
the Tigris, west of Lake Van), inciting the locals not to pay taxes. Ignace Jay Gelb suggested the Urumeans might have been mentioned much earlier, as the...
Paris: CNRS. I. Gelb. La lingua degli amoriti, Academia Nazionale dei Lincei. Rendiconti 8, no. 13 (1958): 143–163. [1]Ignace J. Gelb, "Computer-aided...
anthology of Sumerian and Akkadian poetry, translated into Hebrew. Ignace J. Gelb: Old Akkadian Writing and Grammar. Materials for the Assyrian dictionary...
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