German lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, and archaeologist (1860–1946)
Max von Oppenheim
circa 1917
Born
Max von Oppenheim (1860-07-15)15 July 1860 Cologne, Kingdom of Prussia
Died
17 November 1946(1946-11-17) (aged 86) Landshut, Allied-occupied Germany
Alma mater
University of Strasbourg, University of Göttingen
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Baron Max von Oppenheim (15 July 1860 – 17 November 1946) was a German lawyer, diplomat, ancient historian, and archaeologist. He was a member of the Oppenheim banking dynasty. Abandoning his career in diplomacy, he discovered the site of Tell Halaf in 1899 and conducted excavations there in 1911–13 and again in 1927–29.[1] Bringing many of his finds to Berlin, he exhibited them in a private museum (The Tell Halaf Museum) in 1931.[1] This was destroyed by Allied bombing in World War II; however, most of the findings were recently restored and have been exhibited again at Berlin and Bonn.
Oppenheim was a controversial figure before and during World War I because he was considered a spy by the French and British. In fact, he engaged in anti-Allied propaganda, which was aimed at stirring up the Muslim populations of the Allied-controlled territories against their colonial masters.
^ abKim Benzel, Rayyane Tabet / Alien Property: The Metropolitan Museum of Art Bulletin, v. 77, no. 2 (2019) 10.
not known. In 1899, when the area was part of the Ottoman Empire, MaxvonOppenheim, a German diplomat travelled from Cairo through northern Mesopotamia...
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is named after the site of Tell Halaf in north Syria, excavated by MaxvonOppenheim between 1911 and 1927, the earliest Halaf period material was excavated...
is the largest tribe in the Deir ez-Zor province and according to MaxvonOppenheim, it is the largest tribe in all of Mesopotamia. Members of the tribe...
archaeologist, historian and spy MaxvonOppenheim and gifted him a peculiar stone statue from Ras al-Ayn. This led to Oppenheim's excavation campaign and the...
Bit-hilani, a monumental palace in Post-Hittite style, discovered by MaxvonOppenheim in 1911, with a rich decoration of statues and relief orthostats....
Christianized.[page needed] Travelers like Niebuhr, and scholars like MaxvonOppenheim, undoubtedly echoing the popular Druze belief regarding their own...
by local farmers to fertilize their fields. In 1929, archaeologist MaxvonOppenheim discovered the first shards of pottery from the Halaf culture at Tell...
to the German Foreign Office, it was headed by archaeologist Baron MaxvonOppenheim and, during the war, worked intricately with the deposed Khedive Abbas...
headquarters. In their first meeting with the foreign office liaison MaxvonOppenheim, on 3 September 1915, Chattopadhyay (also known as Chatto) identified...
the excavations of MaxvonOppenheim at Tell Halaf that was purchased in 1920. More material followed from the excavations of Max Mallowan at Chagar Bazar...
Empire into the war as part of the Central Powers. Wangenheim oversaw MaxvonOppenheim's successful attempt to get Ottoman Caliph Mehmed V to declare Jihad...
German-Ottoman cooperation during World War One through his colleague MaxvonOppenheim. He believed, since Germany and the Arab world shared the same enemies...
was so impressed by him that he recommended him, in August 1914, to MaxvonOppenheim as the man to lead the German Afghan mission. Shortly before the outbreak...
Herzfeld (continues to 1914). First excavations of Tell Halaf, Syria, by MaxvonOppenheim (continues to 1913). Excavations of the Hittite city of Carchemish...
and Al-Bu Fahd and Al-Bu Alwan and Al-Mahamda). German orientalist MaxvonOppenheim writes about the Dulaimi tribe: Dulaim tribe is the strongest tribe...
Caliphate. This strategy was the brainchild of German Orientalist MaxvonOppenheim who had published a "memorandum on bringing revolution to the Islamic...
(1754–1822) Baron MaxvonOppenheim (1860–1946), archaeologist, famous for discovering the site of Tell Halaf in 1899. Member of the prominent Oppenheim family Charles...
been used to enhance or illuminate historical texts. The Passion of MaxvonOppenheim: Archaeology and Intrigue in the Middle East from Wilhelm II to Hitler'...
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