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του Ινστιτούτου Gustaf Dalman
Collections for the study of the country of Palestine
of the Gustaf-Dalman Institute
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The theological faculty of the Ernst-Moritz-Arndt University in
Greifswald harbours a certainly internationally almost unique collection of
highest scientific interest and standard. The collection is owed to the
encyclopaedic and universally scientifically oriented research activities of
Gustaf Dalmans (1855-1941), who, through facts and pictures, gathered and
documented everything that accounted for the land of the Bible in his opinion,
especially in the time before World War I, when Palestine still possessed its
agrarian character. Today, the collection is located in the Gustaf-Dalman
Institute. It was founded in 1920, and carries his name. As first director of
the German Protestant Institute for Antique Sciences of the Holy Land, which
opened in 1902 in Jerusalem, and up until 1914, he regularly conducted lectures
for young theologists from Germany, meanwhile studying the Land of Palestine
and the life of its inhabitants. In 1917, Dalman was summoned back to
Greifswald, and could bring a little part of his amazing collection with him.
Besides a wide-ranged library concerning the study of the Land of
Palestine, the history, the religion and the culture of the Jewish people, the
collection includes almost 15.000 glass sheet pictures and photographs as well
as stone probes, a collection of woods and ceramics, products for the processing
of cereals, archaeological findings, relief maps and clothes. Moreover, the
collection also includes several house and acre tools, partly as models, some
of them built by Gustaf Dalman himself, and a herbarium including around 2.000
specimens. This is only a small and yet quite representative part of all the
elements that Gustaf Dalmans held in his collections in Jerusalem.
What ethnologists, archaeologists, geographs, botanists and
mineralogists ever gather for themselves and subject-specifically is assembled
here to represent a universal picture. It provides a unique view on the country
of Palestine at the beginning of the 20th century. Worldwide scientists benefit from this
collection.
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