Humboldt research fellow at the Faculty of Theology

The Head of the Oriental Department of the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg (Russia) und head of cataloging of Oriental manuscripts at the Hill Museum and Manuscript-Library, St. Johns-University, Minnesota (USA), Anton Pritula, is going to do research with the Department of Ecumenical Theology and Church- and Missionhistory of the Orient in the Summersemester 2017 and 2018.

Pritula has already been in Göttingen from 2008 to 2010. At that time he worked on an edition of one of the central texts of the Syrian renaissance, which is now published in Russian and English. He will focus on researching of the network of the second Chaldean Patriarch, whose manuscripts were first registered by Pritula, during the upcoming stay. Thereby an important piece of the early history of the largest church in Iraq will be secured. The findings are going to be published following the semester.

The anew stay is an expression of the good relations between the department in Göttingen and the Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg.