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Orientalistik#

Oriental Studies: In 1674 J. Podesla began to teach courses in oriental languages and the law of the Koran at Vienna University. The Orientalische Akademie, founded in 1754, also offered studies in oriental languages. In addition to the university, the Austrian Academy of Sciences, founded in 1847, also supported all branches of oriental studies from the 1890s onward, particularly through the establishment of committees for special projects and expeditions. Leading authorities on oriental studies in Austria were Baron Joseph von Hammer-Purgstall, A. Pfizmaier, S. L. Endlicher, J. G. Wenrich, A. Krafft, J. Goldenthal, H. B. Fassel, A. Boller, M. Guedemann, A. Kohut, M. Letteris, J. Mueller, L. Stern, R. Tschudi, J. C. Mitterrutzner, Baron Karl von Huegel, B. Juelg, A. Prokesch von Osten, and Baron Alfred von Kremer. F. Mueller was the first of a series of great Austrian experts on oriental studies, whose work produced a flowering of oriental studies at universities and academies that continued into the first decade of the twentieth century. - In the 1960s, Vienna University began to divide up oriental studies into specialised disciplines: Egyptology (together with African Studies, a combination typical of the Vienna school), Semitics and Arabic Studies, Indology and Sinology, Assyriology, and Turkology. The Hammer-Purgstall Society and the Afro-Asian Institute in Vienna were involved in research of these cultures.


University institutes and associations: Vienna: Orientalisches Institut (Oriental Institute), founded in 1887; Institut fuer Aegyptologie und Afrikanistik (Institute of Egyptology and African Studies), founded in 1923; Indologisches Institut (Institute of Indology), founded in 1955; Graz: Institut fuer Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft (Institute of Comparative Linguistics), Institut fuer Indo-iranische Philologie (Institute of Indo-Iranian Philology), founded in 1901; Institut fuer Orientkunde (Institute of Oriental Studies), founded in 1908. Innsbruck: Institut fuer Orientalistik (Institute of Oriental Studies), founded 1907; Institut fuer Vergleichende Sprachwissenschaft (Institute of Comparative Linguistics, Special Department: Indian Collection), founded in 1928. Orientalische Gesellschaft (Oriental Society), Vienna, founded in 1952.

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