Sad news

I just heard that my Hittite professor from the University of Chicago, Harry Hoffner died unexpectedly yesterday. Sad news indeed. You can read a bit more about him here.

I know that some students didn't like him, but I found him to be an excellent teacher. Eisenbrauns published a Festschrift for him several years ago. And his Hittite Grammar was also published by them. I'd like to think that one of the reasons Eisenbrauns got the grammar instead of Harrassowitz was because I was at Eisenbrauns...but we'll never know, will we?

Here are the links to the two books:

Hittite Studies in Honor of Harry A. Hoffner Jr. on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday

Edited by Gary M. Beckman, Richard Beal, and Gregory McMahon
Eisenbrauns, 2003
xxiv + 396 pages, English
Cloth
ISBN: 9781575060798
List Price: $65.00
Your Price: $58.50
www.eisenbrauns.com/item/BECSTUDIE

A Grammar of the Hittite Language, 1: Reference Grammar
Part I: Reference Grammar
Languages of the Ancient Near East - LANE 1/1
by Harry A. Hoffner Jr. and H. Craig Melchert
Eisenbrauns, 2008
xxii + 468 pages + CD-ROM, English
Cloth, 7 x 9 inches
ISBN: 9781575061
List Price: $69.50
Your Price: $62.55
www.eisenbrauns.com/item/HOFGRAMMA

And the teaching grammar

A Grammar of the Hittite Language, 2: Tutorial
Languages of the Ancient Near East - LANE 1/2
by Harry A. Hoffner Jr. and H. Craig Melchert
Eisenbrauns, 2008
vi + 75 pages, English
Cloth, 7 x 10
ISBN: 9781575061481
List Price: $32.50
Your Price: $29.25
www.eisenbrauns.com/item/HOFTUTORI