!!!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.

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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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