List of Asian companies
The focus of the list is on traditional societies whose founding time falls during the heyday of colonialism . The term “Asian” is broadly defined. As a rule, the name, seat, date of establishment, founding personalities, published periodicals, and other were given.
Overview
| Surname | Seat | established | Periodicals etc. | Others |
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| Koninklijk Bataviansch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen ("Royal Batavian Society of Arts and Sciences") | Batavia | 1779 |
Negotiations (since 1779) (with contributions to the South Asian island world); Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch Indië (since 1842), Tijdschrift voor Indische Taal-, Land-en Volkenkunde (since 1853) |
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| The Asiatic Society ("Asian Society of Bengal") | Calcutta | 1784 |
Asiatic Researches ( Calcutta 1788–1836, 20 vols.) Journal of the Asiatic Society (since 1832), since 1865 divided into two sections (one scientific and one philosophical-historical); Proceedings ( Proceedings ) since 1846 in Calcutta , the Bibliotheca indica , a collection of important documentary sources |
by William Jones founded |
| Société asiatique ("Asian Society") | Paris | 1821 | owned a rich museum Journal asiatique (since 1822); Publication of oriental works, e.g. B. the important Collection d'ouvrages orientaux u. a. |
by de Sacy , Klaproth , Abel-Rémusat , Chézy u. a. founded |
| Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland ("Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland") | London | 1823 (1824) | Important museum and rich library Transactions (London 1824–34, 3 vols.) Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society (since 1833) Oriental Translation Committee (since 1828): Publication of translations of oriental works. |
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| American Oriental Society ("American Oriental Society") | Boston | 1842 |
Journal (published in New York and New Haven since 1850) Publication of the Proceedings |
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| German Oriental Society | Leipzig | 1845 |
Magazine (since 1847) and essays for the customer of the Orient ; Printing of some very extensive oriental works by Indian Studies (Berlin 1849 ff., 17 vols.,Editedby Albrecht Weber ) |
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| Società Asiatica Italiana ("Italian Asian Society") | Giornale (since 1887) | |||
| Societé orientale ("Oriental Society") | Paris | 1842 | Revue de l'Orient, de l'Algérie et des colonies | |
| Institut egyptien ("Egyptian Institute") | Alexandria | 1859 |
Bulletins (since 1862) Mémoires |
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| Literary Society of Jerusalem ("Literary Society of Jerusalem") | 1850 | to explore the Holy Land donated | ||
| Society of Biblical Archeology ("Society for Biblical Archeology") | London | 1870 | Transactions (since 1872); Proceedings . | founded by S. Birch and J. Bononi , in which since 1871 several earlier societies with a similar purpose, namely the Anglo-Biblical Institute , the Syro-Egyptian Society , the Chronological Institute and the Palestine Archaeological Association , have emerged. |
| English Palestine Exploration Fund | 1865 | Quarterly statements | active in the exploration of Palestine | |
| American Palestine Exploration Society | 1870 | |||
| German Association for the Exploration of Palestine | 1877 | Journal ( Leipzig 1878 ff.) | ||
| Scientific oriental society | Beirut | 1882 | since 1882 publication of first publications | Successor to the Society of Sciences founded there by Thomson in 1847 |
| Scientific Maronite Society | Beirut | since 1882 publication of first publications | ||
| Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde van Nederlands-Indië ("Royal Institute for Linguistics, Regional Studies and Ethnology") | Amsterdam | Bijdragen (since 1853) | ||
| Société orientale ("Oriental Society") | Constantinople | 1852 | ||
| Athénée oriental ("Oriental Athénée") | Lions | Mémoires | ||
| Asiatic Society of Japan ("Japanese Asian Society") | Tokyo | Transactions | ||
| Pali Text Society ("Pali Text Society") | India | Pâli -Texts & Journal | ||
| Société Académique Indo-chinoise ("Indo-Chinese Academic Society") | Paris | bulletin | ||
| Beijing Oriental Society | journal | |||
| Société sinico-japonaise | Paris | Mémoires ( Le Lotus ) | ||
| Societá d'Italia | Bullettino | |||
| Eschark | Constantinople | next to the imperial academy, the Encümen-i Danis / Endschümenidanisch from 1851 formed Turkish association | ||
| the Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg | St. Petersburg | Bulletin (since 1849), pieces relating to the Orient as Mélanges asiatiques (philological content) | ||
| Imperial Russian Archaeological Society | own oriental department that publishes important Trudy (works) | |||
| Madras Literary Society | 1827 | |||
| Literary Society of Bombay | ( Transactions , London 1819-23, 3 vols.); they and the Madras Literary Society merged with the Royal Asiatic Society of London in 1828 and 1829 and have since been called Bombay , re. Madras Branches of the Royal Asiatic Society ; A special journal has been published of the former since 1841, of the other since 1833. Such branches also exist in Ceylon and Singapore ; | |||
| China Branch of the Royal Asiatic Society | Hong Kong and Shanghai ( North China Branch ) | journal |
literature
- Asian societies . In: Meyers Großes Konversations-Lexikon . 6th edition. Volume 1, Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig / Vienna 1905, pp. 853–854 .
- Asiatiska sällskap . In: Bernhard Meijer (Ed.): Nordisk familjebok konversationslexikon och realencyklopedi . 2nd Edition. tape 2 : Armatoler – Bergsund . Nordisk familjeboks förlag, Stockholm 1904, Sp. 150-151 (Swedish, runeberg.org ).