Syriac Studies for the Kaiser: Eduard Sachau’s Scientific Mission to Mesopotamia

Syriac Studies for the Kaiser: Eduard Sachau’s Scientific Mission to MesopotamiaCollection de l’École française de Rome 609Syriaca.org: The Syriac Reference PortalThe National Endowment for the HumanitiesThe International Balzan Prize FoundationDavid A. Michelsoncbsc_adminRecord added to Zotero bycbsc_adminSyriaca.org: The Syriac Reference Portalhttp://syriaca.org/cbss/CAAN6DSF/tei

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CREATED: This bibl record was autogenerated from a Zotero record.EmilianoFioriSyriac Studies for the Kaiser: Eduard Sachau’s Scientific Mission to Mesopotamiahttp://syriaca.org/cbss/CAAN6DSFhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/a_comprehensive_bibliography_on_syriac_studies/items/CAAN6DSFhttps://www.zotero.org/groups/4861694/items/CAAN6DSFMarieLevantPhilippeBourmaudSéverineGabry-ThienpontNorigNeveuKarèneSanchez Summerer“In partibus fidelium”: Missions du Levant et connaissance de l’Orient chrétien (XIXe–XXIe siècles)RomePublications de l’École française de Rome2022167-190Collection de l’École française de Rome 609This paper studies Sachau’s travel accounts in the Ottoman Middle East in 1879-80 and investigates his attitude toward Syriac Christians. Whereas at that time attention to the contemporary Syriac life and culture was typical of missionaries, scholars and university professors had no interest at all in the religious and intellectual life of Eastern Christian communities. Sachau shows an unusual concern for their condition of life and for the study of their culture. His approach remains ambivalent insofar as he looks at them from the standpoint of a European observer convinced of his superiority; moreover, his interests are also dictated by the political and religious agenda of the day (the Kulturkampf and the contrast between Catholic and Protestant missions in the Ottoman Empire). However, it is clearly perceivable that his concern is also genuinely personal, and in this regard Sachau may be considered as a pioneering figure in the academic study of contemporary Eastern Christianity. Fiori, Emiliano. “Syriac Studies for the Kaiser: Eduard Sachau’s Scientific Mission to Mesopotamia.” In “In Partibus Fidelium”: Missions Du Levant et Connaissance de l’Orient Chrétien (XIXe–XXIe Siècles), edited by Marie Levant, Philippe Bourmaud, Séverine Gabry-Thienpont, Norig Neveu, and Karène Sanchez Summerer, 167–90. Collection de l’École Française de Rome 609. Rome: Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2022. Emiliano Fiori, Syriac Studies for the Kaiser: Eduard Sachau’s Scientific Mission to Mesopotamia, in “In Partibus Fidelium: Missions Du Levant et Connaissance de l’Orient Chrétien (XIXe–XXIe Siècles), ed. Marie Levant et al., Collection de l’École Française de Rome 609 (Rome: Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2022), 167–90.Syriac studiesXIX CEXIX-XXI CEXX CE