Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft

The German Oriental Society (DOG) is a membership organization with headquarters in Berlin.

It was founded on 24 January 1898 in Berlin. Purpose was to promote research and the revival of public interest in the field of Oriental Archaeology in the context that the end of the 19th century was greatly increased public interest in new discoveries in the land of the Bible. At the same time it 's growing self- consciousness of the elites of the German Reich expressed himself that no longer wanted to leave alone the English and French the field.

The range of interests extends to the cultures of the Near East and their spheres of influence in time from the beginning to the Islamic period. The history of the various areas will be considered under linguistic and archaeological point of view.

History

Many then known and wealthy people were among the first members of the German Oriental Society. The founding fathers were the Berlin patron James Simon and active also as patronage and art collector private banker Franz von Mendelssohn, longtime vice chairman of the association. Among other things, through their many contacts it was the DOG possible to finance costly excavations in the Orient from its own funds. In 1901 the highly interested in archeology Kaiser Wilhelm II took over the protectorate, so that in consequence, the company (along with significant government subsidies ) and substantial grants from the imperial disposition fund received that helped finance further excavations. So were in 1907 a total of more than 350,000 marks available.

Among the members of the DOG there were very many people of Jewish origin, including her longtime secretary, the private scholar Bruno Guterbock. The stronger she was hit by the persecutions of the "Third Reich", so they sank into insignificance first.

1947, the DOG was founded back in 1998 and celebrated its centennial with a ceremony at Pergamon hall on the Museum Island in the presence of Federal President Roman Herzog.

Since the nineties of the last century, every two years colloquia with lectures by international scientists under one main theme at the various university locations in the Federal Republic.

Chairman of the DOG is since 2009 Markus Hilgert ( University of Heidelberg), succeeding Hans Neumann ( University of Münster), who is now his deputy. From 1973 to 1980 Eva Strommenger was chairman of the company.

Excavations

With the research of Babylon a company could be started almost immediately after the founding, which aroused worldwide attention. From 1899 to 1917 there were under the direction of Robert Koldewey so important monuments, as today in the Ancient Near East Museum open to visitors within the Berlin Pergamon Museum Processional Way of Babylon with the Ishtar Gate, the palaces of Nebuchadnezzar, the famous Tower of Babel, and, Koldeweys opinion the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis exposed.

Besides the researches in Babylon the favorable financial situation, including the personal commitment of the emperor, especially the excavations in Assur benefited that led from 1903 to 1914, led by Walter Andrae significant results. The finds, since the mid-1920s in the Pergamon Museum (Department Middle East Museum ) held in Berlin, some still not fully worked scientifically.

As early as 1902 had begun excavations in Egypt on behalf of the German Oriental Society, where it was dug under Ludwig Borchardt in the pyramid field of Abusir, then, under the same researchers, from 1911 to 1914 in Akhetaten ( Tell el -Amarna ). 1906 could prove Hugo Winckler, that the ruins of Bogazköy retrieved the capital of the Hittite empire, Hattusa. By 1911 /12 achieved rich results.

In addition to these studies in some of the largest capital cities in ancient Near Eastern cultures find interrupted by the world wars, excavations at various ruin sites of the Middle East rather than as Borsippa, Hatra, Jericho, Kar - Tukulti - Ninurta Uruk and Zincirli.

Publications

Periodica

  • Communications of the German Oriental Society ( MDOG ). Berlin 1898ff. ( Published annually ), ISSN 0342 - 118X.
  • Ancient Near East to date ( AO). Berlin 2000ff. ( Published annually ), ZDB - ID 2018738-5.

Serials

  • Excavations in Qatna
  • Proceedings of the German Oriental Society ( adog ). Berlin, Saarbrücken 1956ff. ISSN 0417-2442.
  • Colloquia of the German Oriental Society ( CDOG ). Berlin 1997ff. ISSN 1433-7401.
  • Send writings of the German Oriental Society ( SDOG ). Berlin 1899ff. ZDB - ID 516555-6.
  • Studies on the Assyrian texts ( STAT). Wiesbaden 1999ff. ZDB - ID 1438-3187.
  • Scientific Publications of the German Oriental Society ( WVDOG ). Berlin 1900ff. ( Einzelp. various publishers ), ISSN 0342-4464.
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