Ernst Herzfeld
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Perspolis, Iran
Ernst Emil Herzfeld (23 July 1879 – 20 January 1948) was a German archaeologist and
Iranologist
.
Life
Herzfeld was born in Celle, Province of Hanover. He studied architecture in Munich and Berlin, while also taking classes in Assyriology, ancient history and art history.
From 1903 to 1905 he was assistant to
Achaemenid capitals Pasargadae and Persepolis
.
He left Iran at the end of 1934 for a year in London but never returned. In 1935 he was forced to leave his position in Germany because of his Jewish descent and became a faculty member of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study from 1936 to 1944. He died in Basel, Switzerland in 1948.
Archives
The bulk of the Ernst Herzfeld Papers are housed in the archives of the
Washington, DC. The material, some 30,000 documents include his field notebooks, photographs, drawings and object inventories from his excavations at Samarra, Persepolis, Pasargadae and elsewhere in Iran, Iraq, Turkey and Syria. The archives are open by appointment Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.[1] Other Herzfeld research materials, notes, photographs and drawings are at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in the Departments of Islamic Art and Ancient Near Eastern art.[2]
Literary works
- Iranische Felsreliefs, 1910
- Archäologische Reise im Euphrat- und Tigris-Gebiet, 4 Vols., 1911–1920 (together with Friedrich Sarre)
- Paikuli, 2 Vols., 1924
- Die Ausgrabungen von Samarra, 5 Vols., 1923–1930
- Archäeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran (Berlin: Reimer, 1929–30)
- Archaeological History of Iran, Schweich Lectures for 1934 (London: Milford, 1934)
- Altpersische Inschriften, 1938
- Iran in the ancient East, 1940
- Zoroaster and his World, 2 Vols., 1947
See also
- Iranology
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-06-01. Retrieved 2010-07-27.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - S2CID 191373052.
Further reading
- "Herzfeld, Ernst", Iranica
- Gunter, Ann C.; Hauser, Stefan R., eds. (2005). Ernst Herzfeld and the Development of Near Eastern Studies, 1900–1950. Leiden: Brill. ISBN 90-04-14153-7.
External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Ernst Herzfeld.
- The Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Archives, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
- Finding Aids for the Herzfeld Archive in the Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC.
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers Archived 2010-08-27 at the Wayback Machine Collections Search Center, S.I.R.I.S., Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
- Ernst Herzfeld-Gesellschaft (Ernst Herzfeld Society for Exploration of Islamic Art and Archaeology).
- Ernst Herzfeld Papers collection from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries
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