Hans Gustav Güterbock

Born and trained in Germany, his career was ended with the rise of the Nazis because of his Jewish heritage, and he was forced to resettle in Turkey.

After the Second World War, he immigrated to the United States and spent the rest of his career at the University of Chicago.

Born in Berlin to a father of Jewish heritage who served as the secretary of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, Güterbock spent a year studying the Hittite language with Hans Ehelolf before moving on to Leipzig University.

With private funding, Güterbock managed to spend three years in Bogazköy as an epigrapher on a German team (while also employed by the Berlin Museum from 1933 to 1935),[1] but Nazi racial laws compelled him to leave Germany and find employment at the Faculty of Languages, History, and Geography at Ankara in 1936.

In 1962, he became president of the American Oriental Society, and in 1996 would become the second person to receive the group's Medal of Merit.