Honorary Members of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft

(in chronological order, since 1845)

Prof. Dr. Hartmut BOBZIN (Erlangen) (10.09.2025)
Islamic Studies

Prof. Stephanie JAMISON PhD (Los Angeles) (6.05.2018)
Indogermanist, Indologist

Prof. Dr. Ewald WAGNER (Gießen) (30.04.2016)
Arabist, Semitist and Aethiopist

Prof. Dr. Walter W. MÜLLER (Marburg) (11.05.2012)
Semitist (passed away in 2024)

Prof. Dr. György HAZAI (Budapest) (22.09.2010)
Turcologist (passed away in 2016: obituary in ZDMG 166, 2016, 5-10 by Barbara Kellner-Heinkele and Simone-Christiane Raschmann)

Prof. Dr. Michael WITZEL (Cambridge, Massachusetts) (19.04.2009)
Indologist

Prof. Dr. Oskar von HINÜBER (Freiburg) (07.04.2002)
Indologist

Prof. Dr. Nejat GÖYÜNÇ (Istanbul) (29.09.1995)
Turcologist (passed away in 2001)

Prof. Dr. Colette CAILLAT (Paris) (24.04.1994)
Indologist (passed away in 2007: obituary in ZDMG 160, 2010, 1-5 by Oskar von Hinüber)

Prof. Dr. Nicola A. ZIADEH (Beirut) (24.04.1994)
Arabist (passed away in 2006)

Prof. Dr. Heinrich OTTEN (Mainz) (25.04.1993)
Ancient Near Eastern Studies (passed away in 2012: obituary in ZDMG 163, 2013, 1-6 by Elisabeth Rieken)

Prof. Dr. Annemarie SCHIMMEL (Bonn) (10.04.1991)
Arabistin (passed away in 2003)

Prof. Dr. Aydın SAYILI (Ankara) (16.04.1989)
Historian of Science (passed away in 1993)

Prof. Dr. Franz ROSENTHAL (New Haven) (28.09.1988)
Arabist (passed away in 2003: obituary in ZDMG 155, 2005, 51-67 by Josef van Ess)

Prof. Dr. Hans Robert ROEMER (Freiburg) (05.04.1987)
Islamic Studies (passed away in 1997: obituary in ZDMG 148, 1998, 1-6 by Erika Glassen)

Prof. Dr. Wolfram EBERHARD (Berkeley) (06.04.1986)
Sinologist (passed away in 1989)

Prof. Dr. Ernst DAMMANN (Marburg) (18.09.1985)
Africanist (passed away in 2003: obituary in ZDMG 157, 2007, 1-6 by Herrmann Jungraithmayr)

Prof. Dr. Joseph NEEDHAM (Cambridge) (18.09.1985)
Sinologist (passed away in 1995)

Prof. Dr. Herbert FRANKE (München) (25.03.1984)
Sinologist (passed away in 2011: obituary in ZDMG 162, 2012, 1-6 by Rolf Trauzettel)

Prof. Dr. Fritz MEIER (Basel) (25.03.1984)
Islamic Studies (passed away in 1998: obituary in ZDMG 150, 2000, 5-10 by Gudrun Schubert)

Prof. Dr. Abd-al-Aziz AD-DURI (Amman) (23.03.1983)
Arabist (passed away in 2010)

Prof. Dr. Paul THIEME (Tübingen) (23.03.1983)
Indologist (passed away in 2001)

Dr. Wolfgang TREUE (Bonn) (05.04.1981)
Administrator (passed away in 1989)

Prof. Dr. Iḥsān ‛ABBĀS (Amman) (26.03.1980)
Arabist (passed away in 2003)

Prof. Dr. Werner EICHHORN (Tübingen) (26.03.1980)
Sinologist (passed away in 1991: obituary in ZDMG 142, 1992, 3-11 by Klaus Flessel)

Prof. Dr. Hans WEHR (Münster) (11.03.1979)
Arabist (passed away in 1981: obituary in ZDMG 133, 1983, 5-10 by Heinz Grotzfeld)

NYĀYAPONIKA MAHĀTHERA (Siegmund FENIGER) (Kandy) (30.04.1978)
Buddhologist, Buddhist monk (passed away in 1994)

Dr. Ivan STCHOUKINE (Paris) (02.10.1975)
Art historian (Islamic art) (passed away in 1975)

Prof. Dr. Richard Rudolf WALZER (Oxford) (31.03.1974)
Classicist, historian of philosophy (passed away in 1975: obituary in ZDMG 127, 1977, 8-14 by Gerhard Endress)

Prof. Dr. Mohamed MOSTAFA (Kairo) (15.04.1973)
Arabist, Art historian (Islamic art) (passed away in 1987)

Prof. Dr. Fouad Ephrem BOSTANY (Fuʾād Afrām al-Bustānī) (Beirut) (04.10.1972)
Arabist (passed away in 1994)

Prof. Dr. Richard ETTINGHAUSEN (New York) (04.10.1972)
Art historian (Islamic art) (passed away in 1979)

Prof. Dr. Erich FRAUWALLNER (Wien) (04.10.1972)
Indologist, historian of philosophy, Indian philosophy (passed away in 1974)

Prof. Dr. Herbert W. DUDA (Wien) (03.10.1971)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1975: obituary in ZDMG 128, 1978, 1-4 by Wilhelm Heinz)

Prof. Dr. Asaf Ali-Asghar FYZEE (Bombay) (03.10.1971)
Islamic Studies, judge, diplomat (passed away in 1981)

Prof. Dr. Ernst WALDSCHMIDT (Göttingen) (03.10.1971)
Indologist (passed away in 1985: obituary in ZDMG 137, 1987, 6-11 by Herbert Härtel)

Prof. Dr. Hellmut RITTER (Frankfurt am Main) (20.04.1969)
Orientalist (passed away in 1971: obituary in ZDMG 122, 1972, 6-18 by Martin Plessner)

Prof. Dr. Johannes FRIEDRICH (Berlin) (23.07.1968)
Ancient Near Eastern Studies (passed away in 1972: obituary in ZDMG 123, 1973, 1-5 by Wolfgang Röllig)

Prof. Dr. Nikolaus POPPE (Seattle) (23.07.1968)
Linguist, Altaic Studies (passed away in 1991)

Prof. Dr. Friedrich WELLER (Leipzig) (16.04.1967)
Indologist, Buddhologist (passed away in 1980: obituary in ZDMG 132, 1982, 1-21 by Wilhelm Rau)

Prof. Dr. Johann FÜCK (Halle) (03.08.1965)
Arabist, Orientalist (passed away in 1974)

Prof. Dr. Benno LANDSBERGER (Chicago) (25.10.1959)
Assyriologist (passed away in 1968: obituary in ZDMG 119, 1969, 1-14 by Wolfram von Soden)

Prof. Dr. Jean DENY (Paris) (03.09.1957)
Turcologist (passed away in 1963: obituary in ZDMG 114, 1964, 6-12 by Franz Babinger)

Prof. Dr. Otto EISSFELDT (Halle) (03.09.1957)
Old Testament Studies (passed away in 1973: obituary in ZDMG 125, 1975, 1-5 by Henning Graf Reventlow)

Prof. Dr. Ernst KÜHNEL (Berlin) (03.09.1957)
Art historian (Islamic art) (passed away in 1964: obituary in ZDMG 115, 1965, 1-13 by Franz Babinger)

Prof. Dr. Vladimir MINORSKY (London) (03.09.1957)
Orientalist, historian (passed away in 1966)

Prof. Dr. Sir Ralph TURNER (London) (03.09.1957)
Indologist, linguist (passed away in 1983)

Prof. Dr. Réne DUSSAUD (Paris) (31.07.1955)
Orientalist (passed away in 1958: obituary in ZDMG 109, 1959, 1-8 by Otto Eissfeldt)

NYĀNATILOKA MAHĀTHERA (Anton Walther Florus Gueth) (Colombo) (31.07.1955)
Buddhologist, Buddhist monk (passed away in 1957)

Prof. Dr. Walther SCHUBRING (Hamburg) (31.07.1955)
Indologist, Jainologist (passed away in 1969)

Prof. Dr. Johannes PEDERSEN (Kopenhagen) (02.08.1953)
Theologian, Islamic Studies, Orientalist (passed away in 1977)

MUNI JINAVIJAYA ĀCĀRYA (Bombay) (30.07.1952)
Jainologist, Jain monk (passed away in 1976)

Prof. Dr. Paul KAHLE (Bonn) (30.07.1952)
Theologian, Old Testament Studies, Orientalist (passed away in 1964: obituary in ZDMG 116, 1966, 1-7 by Johann Fück)

Prof. Dr. Enno LITTMANN (Tübingen) (30.07.1952)
Orientalist (passed away in 1958: obituary in ZDMG 109, 1959, 9-15 by Rudi Paret)

Prof. Dr. Henrik Samuel NYBERG (Uppsala) (30.07.1952)
Orientalist, Iranist (passed away in 1974: obituary in ZDMG 127, 1977, 1-5 by Wilhelm Eilers)

Prof. Dr. Rudolf TSCHUDI (Basel) (30.07.1952)
Orientalist (passed away in 1960: obituary in ZDMG 111, 1961, 4-5 by Franz Taeschner)

Prof. Dr. Erich HAENISCH (München) (30.08.1950)
Sinologist (passed away in 1966: obituary in ZDMG 117, 1967, 205-210 by Wolfgang Bauer)

Prof. Dr. Richard HARTMANN (Berlin) (30.08.1950)
Arabist, Islamic Studies (passed away in 1965: obituary in ZDMG 117, 1967, 1-10 by Hans Robert Roemer)

Prof. Dr. Louis MASSIGNON (Paris) (30.08.1950)
Islamic Studies (passed away in 1962)

Prof. Dr. Emil SIEG (Göttingen) (30.08.1950)
Indologist (passed away in 1951: obituary in ZDMG 101, 1951, 18-28 by Ernst Waldschmidt)

Prof. Dr. Ahmed Zeki Velidi TOGAN (Istanbul) (30.08.1950)
Turcologist (passed away in 1970)

Prof. Dr. Diedrich WESTERMANN (Berlin) (30.08.1950)
Africanist (passed away in 1956)

Prof. Dr. Carl BROCKELMANN (Halle) (25.09.1943)
Arabist (passed away in 1956: obituary in ZDMG 108, 1958, 1-13 by Johann Fück)

Prof. Dr. Otto FRANKE (Berlin) (25.09.1943)
Sinologist (passed away in 1946: obituary in ZDMG 100, 1950, 19-36 by Fritz Jäger)

Prof. Dr. Heinrich LÜDERS (Berlin) (20.09.1941)
Indologist (passed away in 1943: obituary in ZDMG 97, 1943, 157-165 by Walther Schubring)

Prof. Dr. August FISCHER (Leipzig) (14.02.1940)
Arabist (passed away in 1949: obituary in ZDMG 100, 1950, 1-18 by J.W. Fück)

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm GEIGER (München) (29.08.1934)
Iranist, Indologist (passed away in 1943: three-parts obituary in ZDMG 98, 1994, 169-171 by Walther Wüst; 171-180 by Hans Heinrich Schaeder; 181-188 by Helmuth von Glasenapp)

Prof. Dr. Sten KONOW (Oslo) (29.08.1934)
Indologist (passed away in 1948)

Prof. Dr. Ignaz KRATSCHKOWSKY (Petersburg) (29.08.1934)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1951: obituary in ZDMG 105, 1955, 6-17 by Heinz Helmut Giesecke)

Prof. Dr. David Samuel MARGOLIOUTH (Oxford) (29.08.1934)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1940)

Prof. Dr. Carlo Alfonso NALLINO (Rom) (29.08.1934)
Orientalist, Islamic Studies (passed away in 1938: obituary in ZDMG 92, 1938, 633-652 by Enno Littmann)

Prof. Dr. Reynold A. NICHOLSON (Cambridge) (29.08.1934)
Arabist, Iranist (passed away in 1945)

Prof. Dr. Paul PELLIOT (Paris) (29.08.1934)
Sinologist (passed away in 1945: obituary in ZDMG 101, 1951, 9-10 by Erich Haenisch)

Friedrich ROSEN (Berlin) (1934)
Government minister, Orientalist (passed away in 1935: obituary in ZDMG 89, 1935, 391-400 by Enno Littmann)

Prof. Dr. Theodor STCHERBATSKY (Petersburg) (29.08.1934)
Indologist (passed away in 1942)

Prof. Dr. Frederick W. THOMAS (Oxford) (29.08.1934)
Indologist (passed away in 1956)

Mirza Hossein Khan ALÂ (Teheran) (29.08.1934)
Government minister, Prime Minister (passed away in 1964)

Mirza Ali Asghar Khan HEKMAT (Teheran) (29.08.1934)
Minister of Education, Orientalist (passed away in 1980)

Prof. Dr. Johannes H. MORDTMANN (Berlin) (10.09.1932, posthum)
Orientalist, diplomat (passed away in 1932)

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm BARTHOLD (Petersburg) (1928)
Orientalist, Turcologist (passed away in 1930)

Prof. Dr. Sir George Abraham GRIERSON (London) (1928)
Linguist (passed away in 1941)

Wolde Selassie Blattengueta HEROUY (Addis Abeba) (1928)
Foreign Minister (passed away in 1938)

Prof. Dr. Hermann JACOBI (Bonn) (1928)
Indologist (passed away in 1937: obituary in ZDMG 92, 1938, 1-14 by Helmuth von Glasenapp)

Prof. Dr. Sir John Hubert MARSHALL (Cambridge) (1928)
Archaeologist (passed away in 1958: obituary in ZDMG 109, 1959, 16-25 by Ernst Waldschmidt)

Prof. Dr. Christiaan SNOUCK-HURGRONJE (Leiden) (1928)
Arabist, Islamic Studies (passed away in 1936: obituary in ZDMG 90, 1936, 445-458 by Enno Littmann-Tübingen)

Prof. Dr. Sir Marc Aurel STEIN (London) (1928)
Explorer, archaeologist and Indologist (passed away in 1943)

Prof. Dr. Adolf ERMAN (Berlin) (1922)
Egyptologist (passed away in 1937: obituary in ZDMG 91, 1937, 484-485 by H. O. Lange-Gjentofte)

VIJAYA DHARMA SURI (Ahmedabad) (1922)
Jainologist, Jain monk (passed away in 1922)

Prof. Dr. Ernst WINDISCH (Leipzig) (1914)
Indologist (passed away in 1918: obituary in ZDMG 73, 1919, 183-188 by Max Föster and E. Hultzsch)

Sir Charles James LYALL (London) (1914)
Arabist and colonial official (passed away in 1920)

Prof. Dr. Ignaz GOLDZIHER (Budapest) (1911)
Arabist, Islamic Studies (passed away in 1921: obituary in ZDMG 76, 1922, 285-290 by Richard Hartmann)

Prof. Dr. Julius WELLHAUSEN (Göttingen) (1911)
Theologian and Orientalist (passed away in 1918)

Prof. Dr. Charles Rockwell LANMAN (Cambridge, Massachusetts) (1910)
Indologist (passed away in 1941)

Prof. Dr. John Faithful FLEET (Cambridge, Massachusetts) (1906)
Indologist (passed away in 1917)

Prof. Dr. Theodor AUFRECHT (Bonn) (1897)
Indologist (passed away in 1907)

Prof. Dr. Leo REINISCH (Wien) (1896)
Egyptologist and Africanist (passed away in 1919)

Prof. Dr. Ludolf KREHL (Leipzig) (1896)
Arabist (passed away in 1901)

Prof. Dr. Theodor NÖLDEKE (Straßburg) (1896)
Arabist, Islamic Studies (passed away in 1930: obituary in ZDMG 85, 1931, 239-281 by Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje)

Prof. Dr. Sir Ramakrishna G. BHANDARKAR (Poona) (1895)
Indologist (passed away in 1925: obituary in ZDMG 80, 1926, 328-335 by Robert Zimmermann)

Prof. Dr. Edwin Byles COWELL (Cambridge) (1895)
Indologist (passed away in 1903)

Prof. Dr. Viggo FAUSBÖLL (Kopenhagen) (1895)
Indologist (passed away in 1908)

Prof. Dr. Ignazio GUIDI (Rom) (1895)
Semitist (passed away in 1935: obituary in ZDMG 89, 1935, 119-130 by Enno Littmann)

Prof. Dr. Hendrik KERN (Leiden) (1895)
Indologist (passed away in 1917)

Prof. Dr. Julius OPPERT (Paris) (1895)
Ancient Near Eastern Studies, Assyriologist (passed away in 1905)

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm RADLOFF (Petersburg) (1895)
Linguist, Turcologist (passed away in 1918)

Prof. Dr. Émile SENART (Paris) (1895)
Indologist (passed away in 1928)

Prof. Dr. Vilhelm L. P. THOMSEN (Kopenhagen) (1895)
Linguist (passed away in 1927: obituary in ZDMG 81, 1927, 278-283 by Hans Heinrich Schader)

Prof. Dr. Albrecht WEBER (Berlin) (1895)
Indologist (passed away in 1901)

Sir Alfred Comyn LYALL (London) (1894)
Colonial official, historian and poet (passed away in 1911)

Prof. Dr. Friedrich von SPIEGEL (Erlangen) (1892)
Iranist (passed away in 1905)

Prof. Dr. Johann Gustav STICKEL (Jena) (1892)
Orientalist and numismatist (passed away in 1896)

Prof. Dr. Aloys SPRENGER (Heidelberg) (1889)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1893)

Prof. Dr. Johann GILDEMEISTER (Bonn) (1888)
Theologian, Orientalist and Indologist (passed away in 1890)

Prof. Dr. Édouard Guillaume Eugène REUSS (Straßburg) (1888)
Theologian, Orientalist (passed away in 1891)

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Ferdinand WÜSTENFELD (Göttingen) (1888)
Arabist (passed away in 1899)

Prof. Dr. Carl Richard LEPSIUS (Berlin) (22.04.1883)
Egyptologist (passed away in 1884)

Prof. Dr. Adolf Friedrich STENZLER (Breslau) (17.12.1882)
Indologist (passed away in 1887)

Prof. Dr. Michele AMARI (Leiden) (1882)
Arabist, Islamic Studies (passed away in 1909)

Prof. Dr. Michael Jan DE GOEJE (Rom) (1882)
Historian, Arabist and senator (passed away in 1889)

Prof. Dr. Alfred von KREMER (Wien) (1882)
Orientalist, Arabist and Minister of Trade (passed away in 1889)

Prof. Dr. William Dwight WHITNEY (New Haven) (1882)
Linguist and Indologist (passed away in 1894)

Prof. Dr. Reinhart Pieter Anne DOZY (Leiden) (1879)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1883)

Prof. Dr. William WRIGHT (Cambridge) (1879)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1889)

Prof. Dr. Theodor BENFEY (Göttingen) (1878)
Linguist and Indologist (passed away in 1881)

Prof. Dr. August Friedrich POTT (Halle) (1877)
Linguist (passed away in 1887)

Prof. Dr. Otto von BÖHTLINGK (Leipzig) (1875)
Indologist (passed away in 1904)

Prof. Dr. Rudolf von ROTH (Tübingen) (1875)
Indologist (passed away in 1895: obituary in ZDMG 49, 1895, 550-559 by B. Delbrück)

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Leberecht FLEISCHER (Leipzig) (1874)
Arabist (passed away in 1888: obituary in ZDMG 42, 1888, 695-700 by Heinrich Thorbeke)

Prof. Dr. Justus OLSHAUSEN (Berlin) (1873)
Orientalist, government official (passed away in 1882)

Dr. habil. Johann Paul Freiherr von FALKENSTEIN (Dresden) (1871)
Jurist, Minister (passed away in 1882)

Edward William LANE (Worthing) (1871)
Orientalist, private scholar (passed away in 1876: obituary in ZDMG 30, 1876, 612-616 by Heinrich Fleischer)

Prof. Dr. Sir Henry Creswicke RAWLINSON (London) (1871)
Assyriologist (passed away in 1895)

Prof. Dr. Mirza A. KASEM-BEG (St. Petersburg) (1870)
Orientalist, Turkologist (passed away in 1870)

Prof. Dr. Joseph Héliodore Garcin DE TASSY (Paris) (1870)
Orientalist (passed away in 1878)

Prof. Dr. Graf Melchior DE VOGÜÉ (Paris) (1870)
Archaeologist, diplomat (passed away in 1916)

Prof. Dr. Friedrich Max MÜLLER (Oxford) (1870)
Indologist (passed away in 1900)

Sir Alexander GRANT (Edinburgh) (1869)
Rector of the university (passed away in 1884)

Prof. Dr. Whitley STOKES (London) (1869)
Linguist, Celtologist (passed away in 1909)

Brian Houghton HODGSON (Alderley) (1863)
Ethnologist, Indian Studies(passed away in 1894)

SUBHÎ PASCHA / SUBHÎ BEY (Constantinople) (1863)
Government official (passed away in 1886)

Prof. Dr. John MUIR (Edinburgh) (1862)
Indologis (passed away in 1882)

William H. SYKES (London) (1855)
Officer (East India Company) and scientist (passed away in 1872)

Prof. Dr. Johann Albert Bernhard von DORN (St. Petersburg) (1852)
Orientalist, Iranist (passed away in 1881)

Henry Miers ELLIOT (Calcutta) (1850)
Colonial official in India, historian (passed away in 1853)

Prof. Dr. Baron Mac GUCKIN de SLANE (Paris) (01.10.1847)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1878)

Herzog Honoré Théodoric d’Albert de LUYNES (Paris) (01.10.1847)
Private scholar (passed away in 1867)

Anton Graf von PROKESCH-OSTEN (Graz) (01.10.1847)
Diplomat and general (passed away in 1876)

Prof. Dr. Edward ROBINSON (New York) (01.10.1847)
Theologian und archaeologist (passed away in 1863)

Christian Karl Josias von BUNSEN (Heidelberg) (1845)
Prussian ambassador (passed away in 1860)

Prof. Dr. Eugène BURNOUF (Paris) (1845)
Indologist (passed away in 1852)

Prof. Dr. Christian Martin Joachim von FRÄHN (Petersburg) (1845)
Orientalist, Arabist and numismatist (passed away in 1851)

Prof. Dr. Sir Graves Chamney HAUGHTON (Hertford Heath, East India College) (1845)
Indologist (passed away in 1849)

Freiherr Alexander von HUMBOLDT (Berlin) (1845)
Scientist (passed away in 1859)

Prof. Dr. Aignan Stanislas JULIEN (Paris) (1845)
Orientalist, Sinologist (passed away in 1873)

Prof. Dr. Julius MOHL (Paris) (1845)
Orientalist (passed away in 1876)

Prof. Dr. Amedeo PEYRON (Turin) (1845)
Orientalist (passed away in 1870)

Prof. Dr. Étienne Marc QUARTREMÈRE (Paris) (1845)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1857)

Prof. Dr. Joseph REINAUD (Paris) (1845)
Arabist (passed away in 1867)

Prof. Dr. Isaac Jacob von SCHMIDT (St. Petersburg) (1845)
Tibetologist (passed away in 1847)

Sir George Thomas STAUNTON (London) (1845)
Traveller and diplomat (passed away in 1859)

Prof. Dr. Horace Hayman WILSON (Oxford) (1845)
Indologist (passed away in 1860)