sentences:  He grew up in Berlin and studied Egyptology and Semitics at the universities of Berlin and Göttingen.From 1926 to 1931 he was a co-worker of the "Septuaginta-Unternehmen" of the Academy of Sciences at Göttingen.In 1929 he received his Ph.D. degree for the dissertation "Zu den Inschriften der 11.