Background
POLOTSKY, Hans was born on September 13, 1905 in Zurich, Switzerland. Son of Abraham Polotsky and Esther Rode.
POLOTSKY, Hans was born on September 13, 1905 in Zurich, Switzerland. Son of Abraham Polotsky and Esther Rode.
Berlin and Gottingen Universities.
Professor, of Egyptian and Semitic Linguistics 1951-1972, Emeritus since 1972. Visiting Professor, at Chicago University 1952, at Brown University 1959-1960, at Copenhagen University 1967-1968, at Freie University Berlin 1990 and Visiting Lecturer at Yale University 1985.
Israeli Academy, of Sciences and Humanities. British, Danish and Netherlands Academies.
Married Yafa Kahansky in 1936.