Armenian, Hittite, and Indo-European Studies: A Commemoration Volume for Jos J.S. Weitenberg

Jos J.S. Weitenberg, Professor of Armenian Studies at Leiden University

(1994-2009), co-founder and President of the Association Internationale

des Etudes Armeniennes, was a scholar of global standing in Hittite,

Armenian and Indo-European linguistics. The twenty-three studies by

colleagues and former students gathered in this volume reflect some of

the depth and breadth of Weitenberg’s scholarship: Hittite and

Anatolian, to which Weitenberg made a classic contribution with Die

hethitischen u-Stamme (1984), and Indo-European etymologies.

Armenian dialectology is well represented, as are contributions to wider

Armenian culture, and the reception of Greek literary culture in

Armenian. Further studies are devoted to digital preparation of critical

editions, the relationship between master and pupil as well as the

Armenian reception and interpretation of Biblical and apocryphal

material, to which Weitenberg contributed in Eusebe d'Emese.

Commentaire de la Genese. Texte armenien de l'edition de Venise [1980].

Fragments grecs et syriaques. Avec traductions, together with

Francoise Petit and Lucas Van Rompay (2011).