ABSTRACT
Siegfried H. Horn, the founding director of the Heshbon Expedition in the mid-1960s, had since his childhood in Germany dreamed of becoming an archaeologist, but instead became a Seventh-day Adventist missionary to the Dutch East Indies. When Germany overran the Netherlands at the beginning of World War II, the Dutch imprisoned the German nationals who were in the East Indies (Indonesia). When the Japanese moved south, the Dutch turned their prisoners, including Horn, over to the British in India. Horn managed to secure a library of archaeological, historical, and biblical materials during those war years which he studied and from which he drew material to write several manuscripts. After the war was over, Horn ended up at Johns Hopkins University to study with William F. Albright. Albright soon discovered that Horn knew his biblical languages and all about Palestine, so suggested he do his doctorate in Egyptian archaeology at the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, which he completed in 1951. He was then hired to teach by the institution that became Andrews University.
