American Oriental Society
The American Oriental Society (AOS) is an orientalist scientific society founded in 1842 .
The AOS was founded on September 7, 1842 under a Massachusetts law , making it one of the oldest American scientific societies. Her subject areas include the promotion of philology , literary and textual criticism , palaeography , epigraphy , linguistics, biography, archeology and the history of ideas and media of oriental cultures.
Their goal is described in their statutes as follows:
"The scope of the Society's purpose is not limited by temporal boundaries: All sincere students of man and his works in Asia, at whatever period of history are welcomed to membership."
"The scope of the goals of the society is not tied to any time limits: Anyone who seriously endeavors to research man and his work in Asia, regardless of the historical period, is welcome as a member."
The AOS is closely associated with Yale University and its book inventory is also integrated into its library. The AOS publishes the annual The Journal of the American Oriental Society and the American Oriental Series . Presidents of the AOS included Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1801–1889), James Hadley , William Dwight Whitney , Daniel Coit Gilman (1831–1908), William Hayes Ward (1835–1916), Crawford H. Toy (1836–1919), Morris Jastrow, Jr. (1861-1921), Franz Rosenthal , Hans Gustav Güterbock, and Thorkild Jacobsen (1993).