# Hans-Rudolf Hitz · Person

> Swiss microbiologist and amateur epigrapher who from 1979 published readings of the Glozel tablets as a Celtic language in an Etruscan-derived alphabet…

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# Hans-Rudolf Hitz

Swiss microbiologist and amateur epigrapher who from 1979 published readings of the Glozel tablets as a Celtic language in an Etruscan-derived alphabet, in a series of mostly self-published volumes to 2011.

[Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel)[1 event][2 sources]

Hans-Rudolf Hitz is swiss microbiologist and amateur epigrapher, author of the Celtic decipherment of Glozel (1979-2011)., and appears in the record of Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field as swiss microbiologist and amateur epigrapher who from 1979 published readings of the Glozel tablets as a Celtic language in an Etruscan-derived alphabet, in a series of mostly self-published volumes to 2011.

One event on the site involves Hitz: Hitz publishes a Celtic decipherment (1979).

Two questions rest in part on what Hitz did or said, among them “Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?”, which stands open: 4 answers, none ahead.

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## In the mysteries

**Glozel: the inscribed tablets of the Fradin field**

1 event

[The mystery ](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel)

[Do the Glozel signs form a writing system that records a language?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTPBXAPB0/do-the-glozel-signs-form-a-writing-system-that-records-a)Open: 4 answers, none ahead

[Which published alphabets do the Glozel signs resemble, and could a forger of the 1920s have drawn on them?](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/questions/QST0DEDTR4X4Q7P/which-published-alphabets-do-the-glozel-signs-resemble-and)Open: no answer ahead yet

## What Hans-Rudolf Hitz did 1

1979[Hitz publishes a Celtic decipherment](https://mysteriesdept.com/mysteries/glozel/events/EVT0DEDRBQHQRH3/hitz-publishes-a-celtic-decipherment)

## Sources 2

[L'Écriture de Glozel: son déchiffrement, son authenticité](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDJ6B5NVRQ/lecriture-de-glozel-son-dechiffrement-son-authenticite)

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[Hans-Rudolf Hitz et l'écriture de Glozel](https://mysteriesdept.com/sources/SRC0DEDKKVED623/hans-rudolf-hitz-et-lecriture-de-glozel)

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