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| ====== Gelb, Ignace Jay ====== | ====== Gelb, Ignace Jay ====== |
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| '''Ignace Jay Gelb''' (14 October 1907 - 22 December 1985) was a noted Assyriologist and philosopher on the nature of writing and language. Possibly most well known for his work, ''A Study of Writing'' in which he outlines four basic evolutionary stages of writing development, Gelb was a "Renaissance Man" in the field of Philology and Ancient Studies, making significant contributions to a diverse range of fields. Born in Tarnow, Poland in 1907, he attended the University of Chicago, where he began his studies in ancient civilizations. During his career, he was vital in the formation of comprehensive studies into many different writing systems and socio-economic structures of ancient civilization, including his two works on Hittite Hieroglyphs, his glossaries, dictionaries, and other instructional books on Akkadian writing and grammar, and in-depth study of the socio-economic systems of Akkadia and Babylonia. However, among his most important achievments was his role as editor of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, the culmination of decades of study by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Furthermore, his statement, "Writing is a system capable of transcribing linguistic statements while other forms of graphic notation allow for human interconnection through a stable or conventionalized set of marks or signs" (from Gelb's ''Study of Writing'') still stands as the discretionary criteria between writing and pictographs. | '''Ignace Jay Gelb''' (14 October 1907 - 22 December 1985) was a noted Assyriologist and philosopher on the nature of writing and language. Possibly most well known for his work, ''A Study of Writing'' in which he outlines four basic evolutionary stages of writing development, Gelb was a "Renaissance Man" in the field of Philology and Ancient Studies, making significant contributions to a diverse range of fields. Born in Tarnow, Poland in 1907, he attended the University of Chicago, where he began his studies in ancient civilizations. During his career, he was vital in the formation of comprehensive studies into many different writing systems and socio-economic structures of ancient civilization, including his two works on Hittite Hieroglyphs, his glossaries, dictionaries, and other instructional books on Akkadian writing and grammar, and in-depth study of the socio-economic systems of Akkadia and Babylonia. However, among his most important achievments was his role as editor of the Chicago Assyrian Dictionary, the culmination of decades of study by the University of Chicago's Oriental Institute. Furthermore, his statement, "Writing is a system capable of transcribing linguistic statements while other forms of graphic notation allow for human interconnection through a stable or conventionalized set of marks or signs" (from Gelb's ''Study of Writing'') still stands as the discretionary criteria between writing and pictographs. |
| == Festschrift == | == Festschrift == |
| G. Buccellati (Ed.): Approaches to the Study of the Ancient Near East: A Volume of Studies Offered to Ignace Jay Gelb on the Occasion of His Sixtieth [sic] Birthday, October 14 1972 (Or 42/1-2, 1973), Rome/Los Angeles 1973 (pp.1-8: Bibliography) | G. Buccellati (Ed.): Approaches to the Study of the Ancient Near East: A Volume of Studies Offered to Ignace Jay Gelb on the Occasion of His Sixtieth [sic] Birthday, October 14 1972 (Or 42/1-2, 1973), Rome/Los Angeles 1973 (pp.1-8: Bibliography) |
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