German Archaeological Institute
Eduard Gerhard | |
Established | 1832 |
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President | Friederike Fless |
Budget | €38 million[1] |
Location | , |
Coordinates | 52°27′38.10″N 13°18′1.27″E / 52.4605833°N 13.3003528°E |
Website | www.dainst.org |
The German Archaeological Institute (German: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut, DAI) is a research institute in the field of archaeology (and other related fields).[2] The DAI is a "federal agency" under the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.[3][4]
Status, tasks and goals
The Institute comes under the umbrella of the Federal Foreign Office of Germany.[5] It has a legal right to academic self-administration[5] but is also an important component of Germany's cultural, artistic, and foreign policy programmes.[6] The DAI has often laid the groundwork for the establishment of interstate relationships. It maintains relationships with many academic organisations around the world. Its members include German archaeologists, German representatives of affiliated disciplines, and several important foreign researchers. It is not possible to apply for membership; it can only be received by co-option. Selection as a corresponding or ordinary member is accordingly a special honour and mark of academic recognition. The DAI maintains research offices in many countries around the world and a number of commissions focussed on specific topics.
The DAI carries out archaeological and historical research worldwide and therefore often works with scholars of host countries and other international scholars. Traditionally, the Mediterranean region and the Near East are the main areas of activity, but since 1979, the institute's activities have transcended these regions and are carried out worldwide. The institute carries out excavations, expeditions, and other projects. Since 2009, the DAI has established "centres of excellence in research and teaching" in the context of the "Foreign Academic Policy Initiative" (Initiative Außenwissenschaftspolitik).[7] The institute is among the internationally recognised Top Research Institutes. To maintain this standard, the DAI receives special research from the Federal government's Genshagener Programme.
In 2019, it was decided to create a "KulturGutRetter-Mechanismus" under the leadership of the German Archaeology Institute in partnership with the Technisches Hilfswerk, the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum, and other partners.[8] In crisis situations, it should provide mechanisms for the protection, maintenance, and salvage of artefacts and buildings.[9]
It is a goal of the DAI to support deeper mutual understanding between cultures. It seeks to make a contribution to intercultural dialogue. Additionally, through altruistic research of other cultures and academic interaction with other nations, it is meant to contribute positively to Germany's reputation in the world.[10]
History
Foundation
The German Archaeological Institute was established in the early days of archaeology as a scholarly discipline. Even before its establishment, there were learned societies, like the
Initially, the Institute's goal was to gather and publish all archaeological discoveries relating to
The foundation of the institute was a significant milestone for the professionalisation of archaeology. For the first time, efforts were made to gather and publish all archaeological finds, rather than focusing on the significance of individual monuments in isolation. The Bullettino degli Annali dell'Instituto di Corrispondenza Archeologica was the first archaeological periodical, and created the possibility for new discoveries to be continually published. The creation of a large reading library, open to all researchers, was another new development. Along with this a continuously active research centre with public lectures and discussions was created for the first time. All of these innovations made the Roman institute a centre of archaeological research in Europe and a model for the later national institutes created in the Mediterranean and Near East.
When Eduard Gebhard left Rome in 1832, for the Altes Museum in Berlin, the institute's centre of gravity shifted to Berlin too.[11] Simultaneously, nationalist interests increased and the institute lost its international aspect. In 1836, the first modest buildings of the institute were erected in Rome on the land of the Prussian embassy. From 1842, the secretaries received salaries, the whole cost of which was taken over by the Prussian ministry of culture. The highest administrative organ, the central directorate, had several international members, until the Revolutions of 1848-1849, after which only German members were allowed.
Imperial Institute (1871-1945)
In 1871, the "Institute for Archaeological Correspondence" – as it was known at the time – formally became an organ of the Prussian state government. Three years later, it was renamed as the Kaiserlich Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (Imperial German Archaeological Institute).
The foundation of the Romano-Germanic Commission (RGK) in 1902 was due to changing academic frameworks. The influence of
On the hundredth anniversary of the DAI's establishment in 1929, it expanded further and took over existing structures elsewhere. In Egypt, the Cairo Division was established in this year, amalgamating several German predecessor organisations. In Turkey, the Istanbul Division was established, taking over projects and structures of the Berlin museums, which had been active in Asia Minor since the late 19th century. It was also planned to open a branch office in Madrid in 1929, but this did not actually take place until 1943.
Post-war history (1945-)
The
General Secretaries
- Alexander Conze (1887–1905)
- Otto Puchstein (1905–1911)
- Hans Dragendorff (1911–1922)
- Gerhart Rodenwaldt (1922–1926)
Presidents
- Gerhart Rodenwaldt (1926–1932)
- Theodor Wiegand (1932–1936)
- Martin Schede (1938–1945)
- Carl Weickert (1947–1954)
- Erich Boehringer (1954–1960)
- Kurt Bittel (1960–1972)
- Werner Krämer (1972–1980)
- Edmund Buchner (1980–1988)
- Helmut Kyrieleis (1988–2003)
- Hermann Parzinger (2003–2008)
- Hans-Joachim Gehrke (2008–2011)[13]
- Friederike Fless (since 2011)[14][15][16]
Structure and organisation
The German Archaeological Institute is headed by a president (since 2011, this is Friederike Fless, the first woman to hold the position), who is supported by a general secretary (since 2014, this is Philipp von Rummel ). The secretary represents the president and supports them, particularly in matters of academic organisation and policy. The president is bound by the determinations of the central directorate.
The central directorate (Zentraldirektion) is the highest monitoring and decision-making body of the DAI. It determines the annual budget and academic programme, as well as making decisions about publications. It also chooses the president and the directors of the divisions and commissions. A new statue governing the role of the central directorate came into force on 1 October 2019, which specified in particular that employees of the DAI can no longer be members of the central directorate.
As of May 2023, the central directorate consisted of the following members:[17]
- Ute Verstegen, chairman, Christian archaeology
- Carola Metzner-Nebelsick, deputy chairman, Prehistory
- Vito Cecere, Representative of the Foreign office
- Christina Norwig, Representative of the Federal Ministry for Education and Research
- Representatives of the various archaeological disciplines and affiliated topics from universities, museums, and other academic institutions
- Christof Berns, Classical archaeology
- Ruth Bielfeldt, Classical archaeology
- Ulrike Fauerbach, Architectural history
- Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, Ancient history
- Barbara Helwing, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Vorderasiatisches Museum Berlin, Near Eastern archaeology
- Lutz Käppel, Classical philology
- Achim Lichtenberger, Classical archaeology
- Angelika Lohwasser, Egyptology
- Johannes Müller, Prehistory
- Marcus Reuter, Rheinisches Landesmuseum Trier, Roman provincial archaeology
- Monika Trümper, Classical archaeology
The president, general secretary, and speaker of the directors of the DAI participate in meetings of the central directorate in an advisory capacity.
Until the introduction of a new statute on 1 January 2005, classical archaeology had even more representation in the directorate, since they supplied ten of the subject representatives on the directorate, with only one seat for representatives of other subjects. Until 2005, the general secretary of the Römisch-Germanisches Zentralmuseum was an ex officio member of the directorate.
The central directorate is responsible for the award of scholarships, except for those awarded by the commissions. The most important of these is the travel stipend of the DAI (Reisestipendium ), which has been awarded annually since 1859. The members of the scholarship committee are Friederike Fless (chairwoman), Katja Sporn, Ruth Bielfeldt, Ulrike Fauerbach, Kaja Harter-Uibopuu, Lutz Käppel, Carola Metzner-Nebelsick und Monika Trümper.
The members of the heritage building committee are Ulrike Fauerbach (chairwoman), Friederike Fless, Philipp von Rummel, Katja Piesker, Steffen Laue, Klaus Nohlen, Andreas Schwarting, Axel Seemann and Josef Steiner.
Board of directors
The board of directors (Directorium) consists of the president, general secretary, and the directors of the divisions and commissions of the DAI. It is responsible for working out comprehensive academic plans, strategic objectives, and comprehensive organisational rules.[18]
- President: Friederike Fless
- General secretary: Philipp von Rummel
- Athens division: Katja Sporn
- Istanbul division: Felix Pirson
- Cairo division: Dietrich Raue
- Madrid division: Dirce Marzoli
- Rome division: Ortwin Dally, Speaker of the directors
- Eurasian division: Svend Hansen
- Eastern division: Margarete van Ess
- Commission for ancient history and epigraphy: Christof Schuler
- Commission for archaeology of non-European cultres: Jörg Linstädter
- Römisch-Germanische Kommission: Kerstin P. Hofmann, acting speaker of the board
Divisions and foreign schools
The institute contains the following divisions based outside Germany.[19][20]
- Eurasian Division, Berlin; director: Svend Hansen; deputy: Mayke Wagner
- Tehran Office , Iran. Director: Judith Thomalsky
- Beijing Office, China. Director: Mayke Wagner
- Eastern Division, Berlin. Director: Margarete van Ess; Deputy: Simone Mühl
- Damascus Office, Syria. Director: Claudia Bührig.
- Sana'a Office, Yemen. Director: Iris Gerlach
- Baghdad Office, Iraq. Acting director: Margarete van Ess.
- Athens Division, Greece. Director: Katja Sporn, Deputy: Oliver Pilz
- Istanbul Division , Turkey. Director: Felix Pirson; Deputy: Moritz Kinzel
- Cairo Division , Egypt. Director: Dietrich Raue; Deputy: Ralph Bodenstein
- Madrid Division , Spain. Director: Dirce Marzoli; Deputy: Felix Arnold
- Lisbon Office, Portugal, closed 1999.
- Rome Division , Italy. Director: Ortwin Dally; Deputy: Norbert Zimmermann
The German Protestant Institute of Archaeology of the Holy Land in Jerusalem is simultaneously an office of the German Archaeological Institute. It is led by Dieter Vieweger, the current director for Jerusalem and Amman, who is also director of the Jerusalem section. The Amman section Brita Jansen.
Commissions
- Frankfurt am Main, directed by Kerstin P. Hofmann, includes the world's largest library for prehistoric archaeology.
- Ingolstadt research centre (1984–2015)
- Budapest research centre at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (since June 2016)
- Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy in Munich, directed by Christof Schuler; deputy is Rudolf Haensch
- Commission for Archaeology of Non-European Cultures (KAAK), previously the Commission for General and Comparative Archaeology (KAVA), in Bonn, led by Jörg Linstädter
- Ulaanbaatar research centre, led by Christina Franken
The commissions have academic advisory boards, whose members previously served for an unlimited period of time, but now have a maximum term of ten years.
Cross-disciplinary units of the central organisation
- Architecture unit (construction, reconstructions, research into the history of architecture): Katja Piesker
- Scientific unit (anthropology/palaeopathology, archaeobotany, archaeozoology, palaeoclimatology): Ferran Antolín
- Unit for Information Technology (academic IT, development of digital research environments): Reinhard Förtsch
- Unit for heritage protection and site management: Rainer Komp
Units and areas within the presidium:
- Unit for technological development and databasing
- Internal Communications: Sebastian Dobberstein
- Press Office: Nicole Kehrer
Central offices
- Central administration
- Publications, led by Peter Baumeister
- Library, led by Henriette Senst
- Central archive
- Central Photo archive
- Lepsius College
Publications
A full list of the publications of the Institute (journals, series, monographs) is accessible online.[21]
The DAI produces some of the most important German archaeological journals (translated title and standard abbreviations in brackets):
- Archäologie weltweit. Magazin des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Archaeology World Wide)[22]
- Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Yearbook of the German Archaeological Institute, JdI)
- Archäologischer Anzeiger (Archaeological Gazette, AA)
- Archäologische Bibliographie (Archaeological Bibliography), print publication discontinued.
- Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Rom = Römische Mitteilungen (Correspondence of the German Archaeological Institute, Rome Division, MDAI-RM)
- Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Athen = Athenische Mitteilungen (Correspondence of the German Archaeological Institute, Athens Division, MDAI-AM)
- Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Istanbul = Istanbuler Mitteilungen (Correspondence of the German Archaeological Institute, Istanbul Division, IstMitt)
- Madrider Mitteilungen (Madrid Correspondence, MM)
- Mitteilungen des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Kairo (Correspondence of the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Division, MDAIK)
- From 1930 until 1944, this was published in Berlin as the Mitteilungen des Deutschen Instituts für Ägyptische Altertumskunde in Kairo (Correspondence of the German Institute for Egyptian Antiquities in Cairo) and the abbreviation was therefore MDIAAK.[23]
- Sonderschrift des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Kairo (Special Publication of the German Archaeological Institute, Cairo Division, SDAIK)
- Sonderschrift des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. Abteilung Rom (Special Publication of the German Archaeological Institute, Rome Division, SDAIR)
- Archäologische Mitteilungen aus Iran und Turan (Archaeological Correspondence from Iran and Turan, AMIT)
- Baghdader Mitteilungen (Baghdad Correspondence, BaM), discontinued.
- Damaszener Mitteilungen (Damascene Correspondence, DaM), discontinued.
- Beiträge zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Archäologie (Contributions to General and Comparative Archaeology, BAVA)
- Bericht der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission (Report of the Romano-Germanic Commission, BerRGK)
- Germania. Anzeiger der Römisch-Germanischen Kommission des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Germania: Gazette of the Romano-Germanic Commission of the German Archaeological Institute, Germania)
- Chiron. Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts (Chiron: Correspondence of the Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy of the German Archaeological Institute, Chiron)
- Eurasia Antiqua. Zeitschrift für Archäologie Eurasiens (Eurasia Antique: Journal for Archaeology of Eurasia, EurAnt)
- Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie (Journal for Oriental Archaeology)
Charitable society
The German Archaeological Institute is supported financially by a charitable organisation, the Theodor Wiegand Gesellschaft (TWG).
Notable members
- Klaus Schmidt, German archaeologist and pre-historian who led the excavations at Göbekli Tepe from 1996 to 2014
- Eszter Bánffy, Hungarian prehistorian and archaeologist
- Yevhen Chernenko, Ukrainian archaeologist
- Elisabeth Ettlinger, Swiss archaeologist of the Roman provinces
- D. E. L. Haynes, English classical scholar, archaeologist and museum curator
- Nikolaos Kaltsas, Greek classical archaeologist
- Jürgen Oldenstein, German archaeologist of the Roman provinces
- Emmanouil Korres, Greek restoration architect and archaeologist[20]
- Ottomanorigins
See also
- German Historical Institute
- German Archaeological Institute at Athens
- Projekt Dyabola
- Arachne (archaeological database)
References
- ^ "Deutsches Archäologisches Institut".
- ^ Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 12:33GMT
- ^ Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Archived 2015-09-07 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 12:26GMT 2.10.11
- ^ Federal Foreign Office retrieved 12:47GMT 2.10.11
- ^ a b § 1 Abs. 2 Satzung des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts at the Wayback Machine (archived 2018-03-30) (PDF)
- ^ Auswärtiges Amt. "Deutsches Archäologisches Institut" (in German). Retrieved 2022-06-12.
- ^ Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut auf einer Webseite des Auswärtigen Amtes
- ^ Auswärtiges Amt. ""Wo Kultur zerstört wird, stirbt Menschlichkeit": Internationale Konferenz zum Schutz des Kulturerbes" (in German). Retrieved 2020-11-19.
- ^ "KulturGutRetter (KGR) – Ein Mechanismus zur schnellen Hilfe für Kulturerbe in Krisensituationen". Archived from the original on 2020-11-28. on ArcHerNet, dem Netzwerk des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts, 7 September 2020 (accessed on 20 November 2020).
- ^ Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut on the website of the Foreign Office
- ^ Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Archived 2011-10-04 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 12:38GMT 2.10.11
- ^ Archived (Date missing) at dainst.org (Error: unknown archive URL)
- ^ Timeline of Hans-Joachim Gehrke retrieved 16:08GMT 2.10.11
- ^ Archivierte Kopie at the Wayback Machine (archived 2021-03-05)
- ^ Institut für Klassische Archäologie Archived 2012-04-15 at the Wayback Machine retrieved 16:26GMT 2.10.11 [dead link]
- ^ "Prof. Dr. Friederike Fless". www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de. 27 September 2006. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- ^ Membership of the Central Commission according to the website of the DAI.
- ^ Mitglieder des Direktoriums auf der Website des DAI.
- ^ "LOCATIONS Contact". www.dainst.org. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- ^ a b "direktoren". www.dainst.org/. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- ^ "Publications of the DAI". Archived from the original on 2016-06-16.
- ^ "Archäologie Weltweit". Archived from the original on 2016-06-16.
- ^ Abkürzungen von Zeitschriften, Serien, Fachliteratur, Institutionen oder Begriffen zur Ägyptologie - Abkürzungen M. on kv5.de, accessed on 7 August 2015.
Bibliography
- Michaelis, Adolf (1879). Geschichte des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 1829–1879. Berlin: Asher.
- Rodenwaldt, Gerhart (1929). Archäologisches Institut des Deutschen Reiches 1829–1929. Berlin: de Gruyter.
- Bittel, Kurt (1979), "Abteilung Istanbul", Beiträge zur Geschichte des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 1929 bis 1979, Mainz: Philipp von Zabern, pp. 65–91, ISBN 3-8053-0396-3, archived from the originalon 2023-03-25
- Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut. Geschichte und Dokumente. Mainz: von Zabern. 1979–1986.
- ISBN 3-8053-2339-5.
- Kehrer, Nicole, ed. (2019). Das Deutsche Archäologische Institut. Eine 190-jährige Geschichte = The German Archaeological Institute. A 190-year history. Berlin: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut.
External links
- Official Website
- Literature by and about German Archaeological Institute in the German National Library catalogue
- Die 100-Jahr-Feier des Archäologischen Instituts des Deutschen Reiches. In: Zeitbilder, 21. April 1929, pp. 2–4.