Honorary Members of the Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft

(in chronological order, since 1845)

Prof. Stephanie JAMISON PhD (Los Angeles) (6.05.2018)
Indogermanistin, Indologin

Prof. Dr. Ewald WAGNER (Gießen) (30.04. 2016)
Arabist, Semitist und Aethiopist

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

Prof. Dr. György HAZAI (Budapest) (22.09.2010)
Turkologe (passed away in 2016)

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

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

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

Prof. Dr. Colette CAILLAT (Paris) (24.04.1994)
Indologin (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)
Altorientalist (passed away in 2012)

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

Prof. Dr. Aydın SAYILI (Ankara) (16.04.1989)
Wissenschaftshistoriker (passed away in 1993)

Prof. Dr. Franz ROSENTHAL (New Haven) (28.09.1988)
Arabist (passed away in 2003: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Hans Robert ROEMER (Freiburg) (05.04.1987)
Islamwissenschaftler (passed away in 1997: Obituary)

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

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

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

Prof. Dr. Herbert FRANKE (München) (25.03.1984)
Sinologe (passed away in 2011)

Prof. Dr. Fritz MEIER (Basel) (25.03.1984)
Islamwissenschaftler (passed away in 1998: Obituary)

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

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

Dr. Wolfgang TREUE (Bonn) (05.04.1981)
Wissenschaftorganisator (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)
Sinologe (passed away in 1990: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Hans WEHR (Münster) (11.03.1979)
Arabist (passed away in 1981: Obituary)

NYĀYAPONIKA MAHĀTHERA (Siegmund FENIGER) (Kandy) (30.04.1978)
Buddhologe, buddhistischer Mönch (passed away in 1994)

Dr. Ivan STCHOUKINE (Paris) (02.10.1975)
Kunsthistoriker, Islamische Kunst (passed away in 1975)

Prof. Dr. Richard Rudolf WALZER (Oxford) (31.03.1974)
Klassischer Philologe, Philosophiehistoriker (passed away in 1975: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Mohamed MOSTAFA (Kairo) (15.04.1973)
Arabist, Kunsthistoriker, Islamische Kunst (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)
Kunsthistoriker, Islamische Kunst (passed away in 1979)

Prof. Dr. Erich FRAUWALLNER (Wien) (04.10.1972)
Indologe, Philosophiehistoriker, Indische Philosophie (passed away in 1974)

Prof. Dr. Herbert W. DUDA (Wien) (03.10.1971)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1975: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Asaf Ali-Asghar FYZEE (Bombay) (03.10.1971)
Islamwissenschaftler, Richter, Diplomat (passed away in 1981)

Prof. Dr. Ernst WALDSCHMIDT (Göttingen) (03.10.1971)
Indologe (passed away in 1985: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Hellmut RITTER (Frankfurt am Main) (20.04.1969)
Orientalist (passed away in 1971: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Johannes FRIEDRICH (Berlin) (23.07.1968)
Altorientalist (passed away in 1972: Obituary)

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

Prof. Dr. Friedrich WELLER (Leipzig) (16.04.1967)
Indologe, Buddhologe (passed away in 1980: Obituary)

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

Prof. Dr. Benno LANDSBERGER (Chicago) (25.10.1959)
Assyriologe (passed away in 1968: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Jean DENY (Paris) (03.09.1957)
Turkologe (passed away in 1963: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Otto EISSFELDT (Halle) (03.09.1957)
Alttestamentler (passed away in 1973: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Ernst KÜHNEL (Berlin) (03.09.1957)
Kunsthistoriker, Islamische Kunst (passed away in 1964: Obituary)

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

Prof. Dr. Sir Ralph TURNER (London) (03.09.1957)
Indologe, Linguist (passed away in 1983)

Prof. Dr. Réne DUSSAUD (Paris) (31.07.1955)
Orientalist (passed away in 1958: Obituary)

NYĀNATILOKA MAHĀTHERA (Anton Walther Florus Gueth) (Colombo) (31.07.1955)
Buddhologe, buddhistischer Mönch (passed away in 1957)

Prof. Dr. Walther SCHUBRING (Hamburg) (31.07.1955)
Indologe, Jainologe (passed away in 1969: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Johannes PEDERSEN (Kopenhagen) (02.08.1953)
Theologe, Islamwissenschaftler, Orientalist (passed away in 1977)

MUNI JINAVIJAYA ĀCĀRYA (Bombay) (30.07.1952)
Jainologe, jinistischer Mönch (passed away in 1976)

Prof. Dr. Paul KAHLE (Bonn) (30.07.1952)
Theologe, Alttestamentler, Orientalist (passed away in 1964: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Enno LITTMANN (Tübingen) (30.07.1952)
Orientalist (passed away in 1958: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Henrik Samuel NYBERG (Uppsala) (30.07.1952)
Orientalist, Iranist (passed away in 1974: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Rudolf TSCHUDI (Basel) (30.07.1952)
Orientalist (passed away in 1960: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Erich HAENISCH (München) (30.08.1950)
Sinologe (passed away in 1966: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Richard HARTMANN (Berlin) (30.08.1950)
Arabist, Islamwissenschaftler (passed away in 1965: Obituary)

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

Prof. Dr. Emil SIEG (Göttingen) (30.08.1950)
Indologe (passed away in 1951: Obituary)

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

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

Prof. Dr. Carl BROCKELMANN (Halle) (25.09.1943)
Arabist (passed away in 1956: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Otto FRANKE (Berlin) (25.09.1943)
Sinologe (passed away in 1946: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Heinrich LÜDERS (Berlin) (20.09.1941)
Indologe (passed away in 1943: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. August FISCHER (Leipzig) (14.02.1940)
Arabist (passed away in 1949: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm GEIGER (München) (29.08.1934)
Iranist, Indologe (passed away in 1943: Obituary)

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

Prof. Dr. Ignaz KRATSCHKOWSKY (Petersburg) (29.08.1934)
Orientalist, Arabist (passed away in 1951: Obituary)

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, Islamwissenschaftler (passed away in 1938: Obituary)

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

Prof. Dr. Paul PELLIOT (Paris) (29.08.1934)
Sinologe (passed away in 1945: Obituary)

Friedrich ROSEN (Berlin) (1934)
Reichsminister, Orientalist (passed away in 1935: Obituary)

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

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

Mirza Hossein Khan ALÂ (Teheran) (29.08.1934)
Hofminister, Premierminister (passed away in 1964)

Mirza Ali Asghar Khan HEKMAT (Teheran) (29.08.1934)
Unterrichtsminister, 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, Turkologe (passed away in 1930)

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

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

Prof. Dr. Hermann JACOBI (Bonn) (1928)
Indologe (passed away in 1937: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Sir John Hubert MARSHALL (Cambridge) (1928)
Archäologe (passed away in 1958: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Christiaan SNOUCK-HURGRONJE (Leiden) (1928)
Arabist, Islamwissenschaftler (passed away in 1936: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Sir Marc Aurel STEIN (London) (1928)
Entdecker, Archäologe und Indologe (passed away in 1943)

Prof. Dr. Adolf ERMAN (Berlin) (1922)
Ägyptologe (passed away in 1937: Obituary)

VIJAYA DHARMA SURI (Ahmedabad) (1922)
Jainologe, jinistischer Mönch (passed away in 1922)

Prof. Dr. Ernst WINDISCH (Leipzig) (1914)
Indologe (passed away in 1918: Obituary)

Sir Charles James LYALL (London) (1914)
Arabist und Kolonialbeamter (passed away in 1920)

Prof. Dr. Ignaz GOLDZIHER (Budapest) (1911)
Arabist, Islamwissenschaftler (passed away in 1921: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Julius WELLHAUSEN (Göttingen) (1911)
Theologe und Orientalist (passed away in 1918)

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

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

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

Prof. Dr. Leo REINISCH (Wien) (1896)
Ägyptologe und Afrikanist (passed away in 1919)

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

Prof. Dr. Theodor NÖLDEKE (Straßburg) (1896)
Arabist, Islamwissenschaftler (passed away in 1930: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Sir Ramakrishna G. BHANDARKAR (Poona) (1895)
Indologe (passed away in 1925: Obituary)

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

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

Prof. Dr. Ignazio GUIDI (Rom) (1895)
Semitist (passed away in 1935: Nachruf)

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

Prof. Dr. Julius OPPERT (Paris) (1895)
Altorientalist, Assyriologe (passed away in 1905)

Prof. Dr. Wilhelm RADLOFF (Petersburg) (1895)
Sprachwissenschaftler, Turkologe (passed away in 1918)

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

Prof. Dr. Vilhelm L. P. THOMSEN (Kopenhagen) (1895)
Sprachwissenschaftler (passed away in 1927: Obituary)

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

Sir Alfred Comyn LYALL (London) (1894)
Kolonialbeamter, Historiker und 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 und Numismatiker (passed away in 1896)

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

Prof. Dr. Johann GILDEMEISTER (Bonn) (1888)
Theologe, Orientalist und Indologe (passed away in 1890)

Prof. Dr. Édouard Guillaume Eugène REUSS (Straßburg) (1888)
Theologe, 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)
Ägyptologe (passed away in 1884)

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

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

Prof. Dr. Michael Jan DE GOEJE (Rom) (1882)
AHistoriker, Arabist und Senator (passed away in 1889)

Prof. Dr. Alfred von KREMER (Wien) (1882)
Orientalist, Arabist und k. k. Handelsminister (passed away in 1889)

Prof. Dr. William Dwight WHITNEY (New Haven) (1882)
Sprachwissenschaftler und Indologe (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)
Sprachforscher und Indologe (passed away in 1881)

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

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

Prof. Dr. Rudolf von ROTH (Tübingen) (1875)
Indologe (passed away in 1895)

Prof. Dr. Heinrich Leberecht FLEISCHER (Leipzig) (1874)
Arabist (passed away in 1888: Obituary)

Prof. Dr. Justus OLSHAUSEN (Berlin) (1873)
Orientalist, Geheimer Ober-Regierungsrat (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, Privatgelehrter (passed away in 1876: Obituary)

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

Prof. Dr. Mirza A. KASEM-BEG (Petersburg) (1870)
Orientalist, Turkologe (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)
Archäologe, Diplomat (passed away in 1916)

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

Sir Alexander GRANT (Edinburgh) (1869)
Universitätsrektor (passed away in 1884)

Prof. Dr. Whitley STOKES (London) (1869)
Sprachwissenschaftler, Keltologe (passed away in 1909)

Brian Houghton HODGSON (Alderley) (1863)
Ethnologe und Indienkundler (passed away in 1894)

SUBHÎ PASCHA / SUBHÎ BEY (Konstantinopel) (1863)
kaiserlich osmanischer Reichsrat (passed away in 1886)

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

William H. SYKES (London) (1855)
Offizier (East India Company) und Naturforscher (passed away in 1872)

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

Henry Miers ELLIOT (Calcutta) (1850)
Kolonialbeamter in Indien und Historiker (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)
Privatgelehrter (passed away in 1867)

Anton Graf von PROKESCH-OSTEN (Graz) (01.10.1847)
Diplomat und General (passed away in 1876)

Prof. Dr. Edward ROBINSON (New York) (01.10.1847)
Theologe und Archäologe (passed away in 1863)

Christian Karl Josias von BUNSEN (Heidelberg) (1845)
preußischer Botschafter (passed away in 1860)

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

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

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

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

Prof. Dr. Aignan Stanislas JULIEN (Paris) (1845)
Orientalist, Sinologe (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 (Petersburg) (1845)
Tibetologe (passed away in 1847)

Sir George Thomas STAUNTON (London) (1845)
Reisender und Diplomat (passed away in 1859)

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