Bedrich Hrozný and the Imperial Ottoman Museum in Constantinople at the Outbreak of World War I

In the first half of 1914 Hrozný spent some months at the Imperial Ottoman Museum in Constantinople, working on the cuneiform tablets discovered at Boghazköy, the capital of the hittite empire by Hugo Winckler during the excavations carried out in 1906-1907 and 1911-1912. Important unpublished documents mainly preserved in the archive of the Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft (DOG) in Berlin provide information on the planning of Hrozný's stay, the scientific work he undertook in Constantinople and the impact it had in the following years on the nascent field of Hittitology. Thanks to his work in Constantinople Hrozný managed to decipher the hittite language.