Unione internazionale degli istituti di archeologia, storia e storia dell'arte in Roma
The Unione degli internazionale di istituti archeologia, storia e storia dell'arte in Roma in Via di Sant'Eufemia 13 in Rome is an association of several established in the Italian capital of foreign and Italian research institutions , in the fields of archeology , history and art history working are. The association serves the international scientific exchange and the coordination of research.
Members
In addition to the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, the association includes 36 organizations from 20 countries, including the following German, Austrian and Swiss institutions:
- German Archaeological Institute Rome
- German Historical Institute Rome
- German Academy Rome Villa Massimo
- Bibliotheca Hertziana
- Roman Institute of the Görres Society
- Austrian Historical Institute in Rome
- Istituto Svizzero di Roma
The list of foreign archaeological, historical and art-historical institutes in Rome gives a (not entirely complete) overview of the other foreign institutes .
The ten Italian institutes of the association are:
- Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei
- Giunta centrale per gli studi storici
- Istituto Italiano per la Storia Antica
- Istituto Storico Italiano per il Medio Evo
- Istituto Storico Italiano per l'Età Moderna e Contemporranea
- Istituto per la Storia del Risorgimento Italiano
- Istituto Italiano di Numismatica
- Società Romana di Storia Patria
- Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell'Arte
- Istituto Nazionale di Studi Romani
history
The association largely shares its historical background with the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, which was also founded at the end of the Second World War . Both are very closely related to the history of the German research institutions in Rome, in particular to the prehistory of the German Archaeological Institute.
During the Second World War, the German leadership decided between December 1943 and February 1944 to move the libraries of the German Archaeological Institute and the German Historical Institute, the Bibliotheca Hertziana and the library of the Art History Institute in Florence to safe locations in Germany and Austria. With a letter dated December 14, 1943, Cardinal Giovanni Mercati tried to prevent the director of the Bibliotheca Hertziana, Leo Bruhns , from sending the "extremely valuable and incomparable specialist libraries (...) a real ornament of educated Rome" on a long journey who is "constantly bombarded by Allied aircraft".
The association was established together with the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica at the end of the Second World War in order to provide the Allies, who intended to bring the German libraries back to their locations in Rome and Florence, an international body to temporarily administer the libraries should. The three elements in the name of the association, Archeologia , Storia and Storia dell'Arte , were chosen with a view to the names of the German institutes in Rome and Florence: German Archaeological Institute, German Historical Institute and Art History Institute.
Behind the founding of the two associations, however, there was also the further idea of building on the ideals of the Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica , which was founded in 1828 on the Roman Capitol . This originally private-law association, once a model for many subsequent national institutes, soon developed into a Prussian-German institute: in 1871 it became an institution of the German Empire, and in 1874 it became an Imperial German Archaeological Institute. What could not hold up in the age of nationalisms and world wars should now be revived.
The association became a member of the Comité International des Sciences Historiques in 1955 and of the Fédération Internationale des Associations d'Études Classiques in 1956 . Since 1956 she has maintained a photo library at the American Academy in Rome , and another at the Bibliotheca Hertziana.