Benno Landsberger (Friedek 21 April 1890 - Chicago 26 April 1968), from 1908 a student and from 1929-1935 professor at the university of Leipzig, decisively shaped the field of Ancient Near Eastern studies in the 20th c. This website intends to present archival documents pertaining to Landsberger from two universities, Leipzig and Jerusalem, in order to foster further research on one of the greatest masters of the discipline.
The Leipzig material has been kept for more than 80 years at the university of Leipzig and is now in the possession of the Altorientalisches Institut. It consists mainly of letters to and from Landsberger during the period of his professorship and the period of his early exile in Ankara, Turkey.
The Jerusalem material is part of Landsberger's estate, which he bequeathed to the Institute of Archaeology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. For many years now his private library has formed part of the library of Assyriology at the Institute of Archaeology. In April 2012, while cataloguing material stored in the basement of the Institute of Archaeology, Nathan Wasserman found two boxes and identified them as containing archival documents of Landsberger - letters, manuscripts of public lectures, some photos, and many notes and notebooks of his early days as a student in Leipzig - hitherto totally unknown. The material was collected and arranged by Wasserman and parts of it were scanned for public reference (by Mijal Ribco). In June 2012 Michael P. Streck went over the documents and prepared a preliminary catalogue of the estate, which was subsequently presented on a website now replaced by this site.
(C) All rights of publication are reserved by the Altorientalisches Institut der Universität Leipzig and The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.Bibliography:
- Michael P. Streck: Altorientalistik, in: U. von Hehl/U. John/M. Rudersdorf (ed.), Geschichte der Universität Leipzig 1409-2009, Band 4: Fakultäten, Institute, Zentrale Einrichtungen (2009) 345-366. For a fuller digital version see here.
- L. Vacín, in collaboration with Jitka Sýkorová: The Unknown Benno Landsberger. A Biographical Sketch of an Assyriological Altmeister's Development, Exile, and Personal Life (= Leipziger Altorientalische Studien 10, 2018).
Documents in Leipzig
Documents in Jerusalem
Thursday, January 31, 2019
Landsberger Archives in Leipzig and Jerusalem
Landsberger Archives in Leipzig and Jerusalem
Open Access Journal Backfiles: Journal for Semitics
Journal for Semitics
The Journal for Semitics is published by the Southern African Society for Near Eastern Studies (SASNES). The journal is published twice annually. Journal for Semitics is an accredited journal of the Department of Education.Volumes 1 (1989) - 12 (2003) are avaliable open access
See AWOL's full List of Open Access Journals in Ancient Studies
Open Access Library: Bibliotheca Chersonessitana
[First posted in AWOL 10 March 2011, updated 31 January 2019]
Bibliotheca Chersonessitana
Bibliotheca Chersonessitana
Are you interested in Crimean history and archaeology antique editions? Do you agree to use the scans? If your answer is "yes", we are pleased to present a collection of the late 19th - early 20th centuries periodicals and other rare books of our library stock. In 1893 Karl Kazimirovich Kostsyushko-Valyuzhinich (1847-1907), the founder of the archaeological museum in Chersonesos, settled to begin collecting books for a future library.In one of his letters to the Imperial Archaeological Commission he wrote: " I cannot imagine a museum without a library" For a few years he managed to create an outstanding collection of books in history and archaeology, numismatics and arts, geography and other disciplines. These books are the precious core of our library collection. There are more than 30 thousands of volumes in the library holdings and almost a half is rare and valuable ones. Just a few people can get access to use these materials. According to the library status, publications are available only for Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos researchers and scholars collaborating with the Preserve within joint research agreements. If it were not hi-tech the situation would keep remaining the same for a long time.
Several years ago, our library, in cooperation with the Institute of Classical Archaeology at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) and with the generous support of the Packard Humanities Institute launched a project of rare editions digitization and providing access to scans by Internet. We are also working on developing online library catalogue. It is an ongoing project and requires time, so we decided to make our library open at least for Internet audience and share with you already digitized materials. We promise to update the virtual collections with new publications. You are welcome!
On our help page you can find the detailed project description and resources user guidelines.
Wednesday, January 30, 2019
Open Access Monograph Series: Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée
Travaux de la Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée
ISSN (Édition imprimée): 1955-4982
Earlier volumes n the series have been available for some time at Perséee
ISSN (Édition imprimée): 1955-4982
Études géographiques, épigraphiques et archéologiques illustrées.Les ouvrages plus anciens de cette collection sont disponibles sur le portail Persée.
ANTIQUIPOP
La référence à l’Antiquité dans la culture populaire contemporaine
Fabien Bièvre-Perrin et Élise Pampanay (dir.)2018…L’EMPEREUR ET LE MOINE
Les relations du pouvoir impérial avec les monastères à Byzance (ixe‑xiiie siècle)
2017…STRATÉGIES MÉMORIELLES
Les cultes funéraires privés en Égypte ancienne de la VIe à la XIIe dynastie
2016…HABITAT ET ENVIRONNEMENT
Prospections dans les marges arides de la Syrie du Nord
Marie-Odile Rousset, Bernard Geyer, Pierre-Louis Gatier et al. (dir.)2016…THE HUMAN FACE OF RADIOCARBON
Reassessing Chronology in prehistoric Greece and Bulgaria, 5000-3000 cal BC
Zoï Tsirtsoni (dir.)2016…VIENNE DANS LES TEXTES GRECS ET LATINS
Chroniques littéraires sur l'histoire de la cité, des Allobroges à la fin du Vesiècle de notre ère
2016…
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Atlas des sites du Proche-Orient (14000-5700 BP). Volume I : Texte ; Volume II : Cartes - 1994
Francis Hours [Author]
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Zeugma V. Les objets - 2013
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See AWOL's Alphabetical List of Open Access Monograph Series in Ancient Studies
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