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5 unusual facts about German Oriental Society


Friedrich Rosen

Rosen became chairman of the German Oriental Society, the umbrella organization of the Orientalists in Germany, and dedicated himself increasingly to scientific work.

German Oriental Society

Deutsche Orient-Gesellschaft, established in Berlin in 1898 for archaeological research

Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft, established in Leipzig in 1845 as a scholarly organization dedicated to studies of Asia

Lothar Ledderose

He has been a board member of the Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft (German Oriental Society) and, in 1986, president of the ICANAS (International Congress of Asian and North-African Studies) in Hamburg

Sam'al

The site was excavated in 1888, 1890, 1890–91, 1894 and 1902 by a German Oriental Society expedition led by Felix von Luschan and Robert Koldewey.



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Ibn Athir

His Kitab al-Matlial, published by the Bulaq Press in 1865 (cf. Journal of the German Oriental Society, xxxv. 148, and Ignaz Goldziher's Abhandlungen, i. 161 sqq.), contains some very independent criticism of ancient and modern Arabic verse.