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Oriental Coin Cabinet Jena (
German:
Orientalisches Münzkabinett Jena) is a collection of oriental coins at
Jena University, in
Jena,
Germany, founded in
1840.
History
In 1840,
Johann Gustav Stickel, Professor for Oriental languages at
Jena University, succeeded in convincing the Grandduke of
Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach to acquire a collection of 1,500 Oriental coins, and allowing him to study them. The collection was formed by Heinrich August Zwick, missionary of the German Protestant
Herrnhut-Brotherhood, in Russia. He lived at the missionary outpost and small city Sarepta at the banks of the
Volga river from 1816 to 1832. He is regarded as one of the pioneers of the Volga archaeology.
Stickel won
Maria Pavlovna, the Grand duchess, as the main benefactor of the collection, which in turn grew rapidly.
At the death of Stickel in 1896 the collection comprised about 12,000 specimens.
At the end of the 19th century the keen interest of Orientalist for Islamic coins as textual sources lost its momentum, because of the abundance of other now edited texts. In 1906 Stickel's successor, the Orientalist
Karl Vollers gave the figure of about 14,000 specimens. He died in 1909.
The last professor for Oriental studies
Arthur Ungnad left the University in 1919. In 1939, about 4,000 coins were given back to the now abdicated Grand-Ducal family. Several hundreds of coins were then lost in the aftermath of
World War II. The collection was preserved during the period of the
German Democratic Republic.
In 1994,
Semitic Philology and
Islamic Studies were revived at the Jena University with the establishment of a chair for Norbert Nebes. The scientific activities were coordinated by
Stefan Heidemann. At that time the collection comprised still 8,690 coins. The collection was then brought to live again as a modern scientific research tool for the history of the Islamic and Oriental world. With the help of generous private benefactors the collection now holds about 20,000 coins, covering an area from
Morocco to
Central Asia.
Sources of the collection
Today (November 2007) the collection contains about 20,000 Islamic and 1,100 East Asian coins. It includes the collections of:
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