Hans Bauer (semitist) explained

Hans Bauer (16 January 1878 – 3 June 1937) was a German semitist and professor at the University of Halle in the early 1930s. He was involved in the decipherment of Ugaritic cuneiform on clay tablets discovered in Ras Shamra, Ugarit.^{[1] [2]}

Further reading

• Holger Gzella: "Hans Bauer und die historisch-vergleichende Semitistik," in: Otto Jastrow et al. (eds.), Studien zur Semitistik und Arabistik. Festschrift für Hartmut Bobzin zum 60. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2008, pp. 141–182.

Notes and References

1. James B. Pritchard Archaeology and the Old Testament, in Google Books
2. Allan D. Corré, Anatomy of a Decipherment, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee http://images.library.wisc.edu/WI/EFacs/transactions/WT1966/reference/wi.wt1966.adcorre.pdf