“Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberücksichtigt bleiben dürfte”: On the (Non-)Existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908–1945)

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

“Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberücksichtigt bleiben dürfte”: On the (Non-)Existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908–1945)

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

In this essay, we describe the history of German Assyriology in Prague. Even though never institutionally established, the field was represented there by three outstanding scholars between 1908 and 1945. Two of them spent only limited time in Prague, and both are well known to every student of cuneiform cultures. However, the one who introduced Assyriology to the German academic milieu in Prague, and who continued to teach it throughout the investigated period, is almost entirely forgotten. Special attention is paid to a failed attempt at establishing a chair of Assyriology at the Faculty of Arts of the German University between 1922 and 1929, which, if successful, may have changed the global history of the field. We will then follow the development of the Department of Semitic Philology at that faculty until February 1945, when the graduation of a peculiar doctoral candidate with his thesis on an Assyriological topic effectively marked the end of German cuneiform studies in Prague.

Název v anglickém jazyce

“Die Assyriologie nicht weiter unberücksichtigt bleiben dürfte”: On the (Non-)Existence of Assyriology at the German University in Prague (1908–1945)

Popis výsledku anglicky

In this essay, we describe the history of German Assyriology in Prague. Even though never institutionally established, the field was represented there by three outstanding scholars between 1908 and 1945. Two of them spent only limited time in Prague, and both are well known to every student of cuneiform cultures. However, the one who introduced Assyriology to the German academic milieu in Prague, and who continued to teach it throughout the investigated period, is almost entirely forgotten. Special attention is paid to a failed attempt at establishing a chair of Assyriology at the Faculty of Arts of the German University between 1922 and 1929, which, if successful, may have changed the global history of the field. We will then follow the development of the Department of Semitic Philology at that faculty until February 1945, when the graduation of a peculiar doctoral candidate with his thesis on an Assyriological topic effectively marked the end of German cuneiform studies in Prague.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2020

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Perspectives on the History of Ancient Near Eastern Studies

ISBN

9781575068367

Počet stran výsledku

36

Strana od-do

87-122

Počet stran knihy

352

Název nakladatele

Eisenbraun

Místo vydání

University Park, Pennsylvania

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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