The American Oriental Society was chartered under the laws of
Massachusetts
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on September 7, 1842. It is one of the oldest
learned societies in
America,
and is the oldest devoted to a particular field of scholarship.
The Society encourages basic research in the languages and literatures of the Near East and Asia and covers subjects such as philology, literary criticism, textual criticism, paleography, epigraphy, linguistics, biography, archaeology, and the history of the intellectual and imaginative aspects of Eastern civilizations, especially of philosophy, religion, folklore and art.
It is closely associated with
Yale University
Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the w ...
, which is the site of its library. The society publishes a journal quarterly, the ''
Journal of the American Oriental Society'', the most important American serial publication in the historical languages of Asia. Former presidents include
Theodore Dwight Woolsey,
,
,
,
,
Crawford H. Toy,
Morris Jastrow, Jr.,
Harold H. Bender and
Ludo Rocher.
References
External links
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Oriental Society, American
Ancient Near East organizations
Oriental Society, American
Oriental Society, American
1842 establishments in Massachusetts
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