# Emil Forrer · Person

> Swiss Assyriologist who in 1919 sorted the Boğazköy tablets into eight languages and isolated Hattic. In Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of…

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# Emil Forrer

Swiss Assyriologist who in 1919 sorted the Boğazköy tablets into eight languages and isolated Hattic **1894–1986.**

[Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages)[1 event][1 source]

Emil Forrer is swiss Hittitologist (1894-1986) who first distinguished the languages of the Hittite archives and named the prefixing one Proto-Hittite, now Hattic. (1894–1986), and appears in the record of Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives as swiss Assyriologist who in 1919 sorted the Boğazköy tablets into eight languages and isolated Hattic.

One event on the site involves Forrer: Emil Forrer sorts the Boğazköy tablets into eight languages and names the prefixing one Proto-Hittite (1919).

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## In the mysteries

**Hattic, Kassite and the half-read languages of the cuneiform archives**

Swiss Assyriologist who in 1919 sorted the Boğazköy tablets into eight languages and isolated Hattic · 1 event

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## What Emil Forrer did 1

1919[Emil Forrer sorts the Boğazköy tablets into eight languages and names the prefixing one Proto-Hittite](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/hattic-kassite-lost-languages/events/EVT0DEDSSX3M4VJ/emil-forrer-sorts-the-bogazkoy-tablets-into-eight-languages)

## Sources 1

[Die acht Sprachen der Boghazköi-Inschriften](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKNZKFADB/die-acht-sprachen-der-boghazkoi-inschriften)

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1894-02-19

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1986-01-10

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Hittitologist, first to isolate Hattic

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Swiss Hittitologist (1894-1986) who first distinguished the languages of the Hittite archives and named the prefixing one Proto-Hittite, now Hattic.

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