American Oriental Society
The American Oriental Society (AOS ) is a Founded in 1842, orientalist science society.
The AOS was founded on 7.9,1842 under the laws of Massachusetts, and is one of the oldest American academic societies at all. Her subject areas include the promotion of philology, literary and textual criticism, paleography, epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archeology, and the ideas and media history of oriental cultures.
Your goal is described in its Articles of Incorporation as follows: " The scope of the objectives of the company is not involved in any temporal limits: Anyone who seriously strives for the study of the man and his work in Asia, no matter in which period of history, has been a member welcome ".
The AOS is closely associated with Yale University and her book inventory also integrated into the library. By AOS -annual The Journal of the American Oriental Society is published. President of the AOS were, inter alia, Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801-1889), James Hadley, William Dwight Whitney, Daniel Coit Gilman (1831-1908), William Hayes Ward (1835-1916), Crawford H. Toy (1836-1919), Morris Jastrow, Jr. ( 1861-1921), Franz Rosenthal, Hans Gustav Guterbock.