Emil Orgetorix Gustav Forrer (also Emilio O. Forrer; ; 19 February 1894,
Straßburg
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,
Alsace-Lorraine – 10 January 1986,
San Salvador
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) was a Swiss
Assyriologist
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and pioneering
Hittitologist
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.
Moreover, Emil Forrer developed a
deviant interdisciplinary
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field of research (''Meropisforschung''), based on textual fragments of the Greek historian
Theopompus of Chios, and dealing with assumed
pre- or
protohistoric
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contacts between the
Old- and the
New World
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.
[Emil Forrer, ]
Homerisch und silenisch Amerika
', San Salvador (author's edition) 1975 Antithetic to the prevailing academic school of thought, Forrer advocated the idea that Theopomp's "
Meropis
Meropis ( Ancient Greek: ) is a fictional island mentioned by ancient Greek writer Theopompus of Chios in his work '' Philippica'', which is only fragmentarily maintained via Aelian.
Background
The story of Meropis is neither a utopia nor a p ...
" was not a fictional place but an actual geographic entity.
Works
* Forrer, E. ''Neue Probleme zum Ursprung der indogermanichen Sprachen''. “Mannus”, B. 26, 1934
* Forrer, E.
Homerisch und silenisch Amerika', San Salvador (author's edition) 1975
See also
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Meropis
Meropis ( Ancient Greek: ) is a fictional island mentioned by ancient Greek writer Theopompus of Chios in his work '' Philippica'', which is only fragmentarily maintained via Aelian.
Background
The story of Meropis is neither a utopia nor a p ...
*
Historicity of the Iliad
The extent of the historical basis of the Homeric epics, the Iliad and Odyssey, has been a topic of scholarly debate for centuries.
While researchers of the 18th century had largely rejected the story of the Trojan War as fable, the discoveries ...
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Wilusa
Wilusa ( hit, ) or Wilusiya was a Late Bronze Age city in western Anatolia known from references in fragmentary Hittite records. The city is notable for its identification with the archaeological site of Troy, and thus its potential connection ...
References
Linguists from Switzerland
1894 births
1986 deaths
20th-century linguists
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