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<p>2001:4646:2494:0:C584:FBC4:1804:5757: </p> <hr /> <div>{{Short description|Norwegian linguist and historian}}<br /> {{for|the 19th-century businessman|Jørgen von Cappelen Knudtzon}}<br /> [[File:JørgenKnudtzon.jpg|thumb]]<br /> '''Jørgen Alexander Knudtzon''' (9 September 1854&amp;nbsp;– 7 January 1917) was a [[Norway|Norwegian]] [[linguistics|linguist]] and [[historian]]. He was a professor of Semitic Languages at the University of Oslo from 1907.<br /> <br /> Knudtzon was born in [[Trondheim]], the son of consul Hans Nicolay Knudtzon (1814–89) and his wife Catharina (1831–79) ''née'' Trampe. Having [[examen artium|finished]] his secondary education in 1872, he enrolled at the [[University of Oslo|Royal Frederick University]] in [[Oslo|Christiania]]. After a short spell at the [[Trondheim Cathedral School|Cathedral School in Trondheim]], he returned to Christiania to study [[Semitic languages]], in particular [[Akkadian language|Akkadian]], [[Arabic language|Arabic]] and [[Hebrew language|Hebrew]], the last of which he also gave lectures on. His first scholarly contribution was ''Textkritische Bemerkungen zu Lay 17,18'', which was published in 1882. In the same decade he studied [[assyriology]] and [[theology]] in [[Germany]] on a university stipend. He returned to Norway after only two years, and resumed his Hebrew teaching. In 1889, he took his [[Doctor of Philosophy#Denmark and Norway|dr. phil.]] degree with the thesis ''Det saakaldte Perfektum og Imperfektum i Hebraisk'' (&quot;The So-called Perfect and Preterite in Hebrew&quot;).&lt;ref&gt;[[Kjell Aartun|Aartun, Kjell]]. &quot;[http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/J%C3%B8rgen_Knudtzon/utdypning_%E2%80%93_1 Jørgen Knudtzon].&quot; ''[[Norsk biografisk leksikon]].'' Ed. [[Knut Helle]]. Vol. 5. Oslo: Kunnskapsforlaget, 2002. Web. 19 December 2011.&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> In recognizing the [[Hittite language]] as [[Indo-European languages|Indo-European]] on the basis of two letters from [[Arzawa]] (in Western [[Anatolia]]), found in [[Egypt]] (''Die zwei Arzawa-Briefe'', 1902), he played an important role in the deciphering of the Hittite language script. In two landmark volumes (1907 and 1915) he published the [[Amarna letters]], diplomatic correspondence of the reign of [[Pharaoh]] Amenhotep IV, better known as [[Akhenaten]] (1351–1334 BC).<br /> <br /> ==Works==<br /> *{{cite book|year=1893 |url=https://archive.org/details/assyrischegebete02knud |title=Assyrische Gebete an den Sonnengott für Staat und königliches Haus aus der Zeit Assahaddons und Asurbanipals|volume= 2 |location=Leipzig}}<br /> *{{cite book |title=Die zwei Arzawa Briefe: Die ältesten Urkunden in Indogermanischer Sprache &lt;!-- |publisher=J. C. Hinrichs --&gt;|location=Leipzig |year=1902 |url=https://archive.org/details/diezweiarzawabr00torpgoog}}<br /> *{{cite book |title=Die El-Amarna-tafeln, bearb |publisher=J. C. Hinrichs |location=Leipzig |year=1908–15}}<br /> *{{cite book|year=1915 |url=https://archive.org/details/dieelamarnatafel01knud |title=Die El-Amarna-Tafeln|series= 2 vols. |location=Leipzig}}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> {{Authority control}}<br /> <br /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Knudtzon, Joergen Alexander}}<br /> [[Category:1854 births]]<br /> [[Category:1917 deaths]]<br /> [[Category:Linguists from Norway]]<br /> [[Category:Historical linguists]]<br /> [[Category:Hittitologists]]<br /> [[Category:Hebraists]]<br /> [[Category:People from Trondheim]]<br /> <br /> <br /> {{Norway-linguist-stub}}<br /> {{Hebrew-lang-stub}}</div>

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