Language:
French
Year of publication:
2008
Titel der Quelle:
Itinéraires orientalistes entre France et Allemagne
Angaben zur Quelle:
(2008) 169-184
Keywords:
Renan, Ernest, Criticism and interpretation
;
Steinthal, Heymann, Criticism and interpretation
;
Goldziher, Ignac, Criticism and interpretation
;
Orientalism Biography
;
Middle East specialists Biography
;
Semitic philology History
Abstract:
In a striking way the Semitic question in oriental philology brings together different biographies following with some years distance the same ways (LeipzigBerlin or Berlin-Leipzig, Berlin-Paris, Paris-London), figures which are renowned (Müller, Renan) or not (Bunsen, Eckstein), and institutions, which all outstandingly personify the Franco-German cultural transfer which was constitutive for the emergence of European oriental studies. At a time where the focus was not only on linguistics but on comparative mythology, Völkerpsychology or racial studies, a real Franco-German « drama » around Semitic languages and mythologies took place between 1840 and 1860, continued afterwards by Ignác Goldziher. Showing that this Franco-German debate about Semitism is also a debate about the place of « alterity » and/or assimilation in history, linked to the question of the relations between antique Greece and the Orient, this article analyzes the fertility of « Franco-German oriental studies », linked intimately to the emergence of social sciences and to the construction of the two nations, France and Germany.
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