Emil Forrer, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Emil Forrer

Swiss linguist (1894-1986)

Date of Birth: 19-Feb-1894

Place of Birth: Strasbourg, France

Date of Death: 10-Jan-1986

Profession: classical scholar, Hittitologist, linguist, assyriologist

Nationality: Switzerland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Emil Orgetorix Gustav Forrer (also Emilio O.
Forrer; German: ['f???]; 19 February 1894, Straßburg, Alsace-Lorraine – 10 January 1986, San Salvador) was a Swiss Assyriologist and pioneering Hittitologist.Moreover, Emil Forrer developed a deviant interdisciplinary field of research ("Meropisforschung"), based on textual fragments of the Greek historian Theopompus of Chios, and dealing with assumed pre- or protohistoric contacts between the Old- and the New World.
Antithetic to the prevailing academic school of thought, Forrer advocated the idea that Theopomp's "Meropis" was not a fictional place, but an actually existing geographic entity.