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Die Orientalistik gilt heute als exotisches Orchideenfach. Dieses Urteil kursierte bereits im 19. Jahrhundert. Trotzdem geh�rte das Fach bis zum Ersten Weltkrieg zur festen Grundausstattung der Philosophischen Fakult�ten. Die vorliegende Studie geht daher der Frage nach, wie es der Orientalistik in Deutschland gelang, sich im Geflecht von Wissenschaft, Politik und �ffentlichkeit an den Universit�ten nicht nur zu etablieren, sondern langfristig zu verankern. Wie gingen die deutschen Orientalisten mit dem Vorwurf um, eine �Luxuswissenschaft� zu sein, und worin begruendete sich dieser? Neben der Entwicklung der Orientalistik an den deutschen Universit�ten stehen Gruppen- und Schul...
This volume originates from a research project, which was funded within the PRIN program Writing Uses: Transmission of Knowledge, Administrative Practices and Political Control in Anatolian and Syro-Anatolian Polities in the 2nd and 1st Millennium BCE. The project involved ‘research units’ from different Italian universities (Torino, Pavia, Bologna, Firenze, Napoli - Suor Orsola Benincasa). The papers presented here, seek to fill some gaps in our knowledge of the Hittite Empire and its epigones, and offer an updated picture of some aspects of the Hittite and post-Hittite administration in Anatolia and Syria through the analysis and interpretation of epigraphic and archaeological evidence.
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Born into a prominent German Jewish banking family, Baron Max von Oppenheim (1860-1946) was a keen amateur archaeologist and ethnologist. His discovery and excavation of Tell Halaf in Syria marked an important contribution to knowledge of the ancient Middle East, while his massive study of the Bedouins is still consulted by scholars today. He was also an ardent German patriot, eager to support his country's pursuit of its "place in the sun." Excluded by his part-Jewish ancestry from the regular diplomatic service, Oppenheim earned a reputation as "the Kaiser's spy" because of his intriguing against the British in Cairo, as well as his plan, at the start of the First World War, to incite Musl...
First Published in 1990. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Published in 1990, Bibliography Of The Amarna Perio is a valuable contribution to the field of Asian Studies.