HROZNY, FREDERIC ), Czech orientalist and archaeologist, studied in Prague, Vienna, Berlin and London. In 1904 he took part in the Seelin excavations in Ta'anuk (north Palestine), on the basis of which he wrote Die Keilschrif ttexte von Ta'annek (1904) and Die neugefundenen Keilschrif ttexte von Ta'annek (1906). In 1905 he was appointed professor at Vienna, and in 1919 professor of cuneiform research and ancient Oriental history at the Charles university of Prague. Hrozny left the solution of the Hittite hieroglyphics to chance, proceeded to work on the basis of Hittite documents from the Boghazkeui archives written in cuneiform script, and in 1915 thus succeeded in deci phering the Hittite language, which he proved to be an Indo European tongue, closely akin to the Iranian, Celtic, Italic and Slavonic families of speech. His solution was attacked from many quarters, but he substantiated his claim by the success with which he read and translated a number of documents, among others a Hittite legal code (published in Paris, 1922, under the title: Code Hittite provenant de l'Asie Mineure, I. Partie : Transcrip tion, traduction francaise). In 1925 excavations for the purpose of further research were made under his direction by a Czech scientific expedition to Asia Minor. See HITTITES, contributed by Prof. Hrozny, and bibliography there for his later writings.