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Herzfeld, Ernst

Born July 23, 1879, in Celle; died Jan. 21, 1948, in Basel. German archaeologist, philologist, and Iranian scholar.

From 1918 to 1935, Herzfeld was a professor of Eastern archaeology at the University of Berlin, and beginning in 1936, at Princeton University in the USA. He published works on ancient Eastern, primarily Iranian, cultures, writings, and architecture. He conducted excavations at Samarra (1911–13), Persepolis (1931–34), and other sites.

WORKS

Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran, vols. 1–9. Berlin, 1929–38.
Zoroaster and His World, vols. 1–2. Princeton, N.J., 1947.

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Ernst Herzfeld's collection of about 1,200 artifacts found in Persia in the early 1900s, which the Field Museum bought in 1945, as well as clay seal impressions from the ancient Chogha Mish settlement, which the Institute acquired in the 1960s.

Case of the cuneiform tablets goes before Supreme Court next month

Eine neue Kultur im altesten Mesopotamien (Leipzig, 1931, soon followed by an English and an expanded French translation), was influenced by two credentialed friends: Assyriologist Arthur Ungnad and art historian Ernst Herzfeld. The former, an eccentric scholar even among committed Nazis, led Oppenheim to take a racialized approach in his investigations, and Max concluded that Tell Halaf had been a bastion of the "Aryan Mittani." Herzfeld, more aesthete than scientist, convinced Oppenheim that the sculpture from the site, given its clumsy style, should be recognized as primitive and consequently dated to the early third millennium.

The Passion of Max von Oppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hider. By LIONEL GOSSMAN

27-29) are discussed alongside such ridiculous incidents as the "Hundekackezwischenfall: a blowup occasioned by the misbehavior of Ernst Herzfeld's pet dog (p.

Assur--Gott, Stadt and Land: 5. Internationales Colloquium des Deutschen Orient-Gesellschaft, 18.-21. Februar 2004 in Berlin

Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900-1959.

Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies

One has to be familiar with Ernst Herzfeld's article on the Gunbad-i [Alaviyan.sup.[subset]], which is largely based on a stylistic contextualization of the building, relying on examples from the Ilkhanid period (and arguing for the Ilkhanid origin of the Gunbad-i [Alaviyan.sup.[subset]]) in order to understand where Shani stands: by using textual sources, she counters their underrepresentation in the past, and by bringing in Seljuq examples, she gainsays the over-presence of Ilkhanid evidence in the dating efforts of previous scholars.

Oxfrod Studies in Islamic Art, vol. 11, A Monumental Manifestation of the Shiite Faith in Late Twelfth-Century Iran: The Case of the Gunbad-I Alawiyan Hamadan. (Reviews of Books)