Collège De France (général)

Dominique CharpinCollège de FranceAnnée 2024-2025Civilisation mésopotamienneConférence - Silvia Alaura : The Anatolian studies during the 1930s through the lens of Albrecht Goetze's correspondenceSilvia Alaura est invitée par l'assemblée du Collège de France sur proposition du Pr Dominique Charpin, chaire Civilisation mésopotamienne.RésuméThe lecture offers an overview of Anatolian Studies during the 1930s from both archaeological and philological perspectives. The main facts of this momentous years are highlighted by means of the hitherto largely unpublished correspondence of one of the leading scholars of the time: the philologist Albrecht Goetze (1897-1971), who in 1931 was professor of Semitic Languages and Ancient Oriental History at the Philipps-Universität Marburg and in 1933 emigrated to the United States after being dismissed by the Nazi regime, not on racial grounds but because he was deemed politically unreliable.His extensive correspondence, now kept in the Yale University Archives, includes many