Volkert Haas (born 1 November 1936 in Rosenheim – 13 May 2019 in Berlin)[1] was a German Assyrologist and Hittitologist.
From 1970 to 1973, he carried out the research project "The Hurritological Archive" within the Ancient Near Eastern department of the Free University and he continued to be employed there as an assistant from 1973 to 1977.
As a lecturer, Haas instructed several generations of students in Assyrian, Hittite, and Hurrian.
The central focuses of his research were the language, literature and religious history of the Hurrians and the Hittites.
His ongoing research projects are the Corpus der hurritischen Sprachdenkmäler or Hurritologisches Archiv (Corpus of Hurrian linguistic monuments or Hurritological Archive), "the Near Eastern Religions", "Hittite Medical Treatment," and a history of Hittite literature.