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The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near EastProceedings of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16‒20, 2018
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The Intellectual Heritage of the Ancient Near East, pp. 207-218, 2023/04/12
Proceedings of the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale and the 12th Melammu Symposium, University of Innsbruck, July 16‒20, 2018
Walter Andrae (1875−1956) is widely known as the excavator of Ashur (Qal’at Sherqat) on the Tigris before World War I and as director of the Museum of the Ancient Near East in the Pergamonmuseum Berlin from 1928−1951. His scientific approach certainly owed much to his mentor Robert Koldewey (1855−1925) and his predecessors in the museum like Friedrich Delitzsch (1850−1922) and Otto Weber (1877−1928). However, Andrae´s reception of the ancient Near East since early in the 1920s was strongly influenced by his anthroposophical weltanschauung which guided him in his design of the exhibition in the museum. As this exhibition has not been fundamentally altered over the decades, Andrae’s specific spiritually guided reception can still be studied today.