Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena is a collection of oriental coins at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena .

history

The collection was created in 1840 at the suggestion of Johann Gustav Stickel , professor for oriental languages ​​at the University of Jena, who was able to convince Grand Duke Carl Friedrich of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach to acquire 1,500 oriental coins and leave them to him to study. Heinrich August Zwick, a missionary of the Moravian Brethren , who lived in Sarepta on the banks of the Volga from 1816 to 1832 and is considered one of the pioneers of Volga archeology, was responsible for putting together the collection .

Stickel was able to win the Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna as the main patron of the collection and expanded it to 12,000 copies by his death. After his death in 1896, the orientalist Karl Vollers was Stickel's successor. In 1906 he recorded 14,000 copies and died in 1909. Vollers' successor was the orientalist Arthur Ungnad , until he left the University of Greifswald in 1919.

Several hundred coins were lost during the Second World War, but the collection was able to be preserved during the GDR era. It is located in the city center of Jena , in the Löbdergraben 24a building, and today comprises around 21,000 numismatic objects.

literature

  • Johann Gustav Stickel: Handbook for Oriental Coin Studies. The Grand Ducal Oriental Münzcabinet zu Jena , first issue, (FA Brockhaus) 1845, second issue, Leipzig (FA Brockhaus) 1870, reprint Leipzig 1975.
  • Karl Vollers: The oriental coin cabinet of the University of Jena in 1906. In: Blätter für Münzfreunde 41, 6, (1906) Sp. 3515-3524; 41, 7-8, col. 3529-3537.
  • Stefan Heidemann : The Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena - Islamic Coin Studies from Enlightenment Theology to Regional Studies . In: Eothen. Yearbook of the Society of Friends of Islamic Art and Culture eV 4, 2007, pp. 95–120 ( digitized version ).
  • Stefan Heidemann: Library of the Grand Ducal Oriental Coin Cabinet , in: Bernhard Fabian (Ed.): Handbook of the historical book holdings in Germany Vol. 20, Thuringia H – R, Hildesheim, Zurich, New York (Olms-Weidmann) 1999, p. 162– 163 ( digitized version ).
  • Stefan Heidemann, Claudia Sode : Christian-oriental lead seals in the Oriental Münzkabinett Jena , in: Aram periodical 11–12 (1999–2000), pp. 533–593.
  • Sylloge of the coins of the Caucasus and Eastern Europe in the Oriental Münzkabinett Jena, edited by Tobias Mayer with contributions by Stefan Heidemann and Gert Rispling (Orientalisches Münzkabinett Jena 1, ed. By Norbert Nebes and Stefan Heidemann), Wiesbaden (Harrassowitz) 2005.
  • Stefan Heidemann: Maria Pawlowna and the upheaval in Oriental Studies - the founding of the Grand Ducal Oriental Coin Cabinet . In: Joachim Berger, Joachim von Puttkamer (ed.): From Petersburg to Weimar. Cultural transfers from 1800 to 1860 (= Jena contributions to history 9). Frankfurt am Main 2006, pp. 221-259 ( digitized version ).

Web links

Coordinates: 50 ° 55 ′ 38.9 "  N , 11 ° 35 ′ 26.4"  E