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Excavating Zarathustra: Ernst Herzfeld's Archaeological History of Iran

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2022

Jennifer Jenkins
Jennifer Jenkins*
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Department of History, University of Toronto
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Abstract

This article analyzes the work of the German archaeologist Ernst Herzfeld (1879–1948) and its influence on the writing of Iranian national history in the 1920s and 1930s. Herzfeld's life and work illuminates the relationship between Germany and Iran and between orientalist scholarship and nationalist history in the first half of the twentieth century. Through the method of what he called “archaeological history,” Herzfeld wrote an interdisciplinary history of Iran and its Aryan foundations that contested the assumptions of decades of European orientalist scholarship.

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Iranian Studies , Volume 45 , Issue 1 , January 2012 , pp. 1 - 27
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Copyright © The International Society for Iranian Studies 2012

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Many thanks are due to the Canada Research Chairs Foundation and to the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for the financial support that made this research possible.

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31 Grigor, “Recultivating ‘Good Taste,’” 19–20.

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33 Marashi, Nationalizing Iran, 72.

34 Marashi, Nationalizing Iran, 64.

35 Marashi, Nationalizing Iran, 63.

36 Marashi, Nationalizing Iran, 66–73.

37 Tavakoli-Targhi, Refashioning Iran, 101.

38 Marashi, Nationalizing Iran, 59. On this point see also Grigor, “Recultivating ‘Good Taste.’”

39 Marashi, Nationalizing Iran, 54.

40 PA AA Berlin Deutsche Gesandtschaft Teheran (hereafter DGT) Box 26, III. 10, Vol. 1: Foreign Office to DGT, 10 February 1923; DGT to Foreign Office, 1 October 1923; Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 2: Journals, Notebook N-83, “Tagebuch Persien I, 1923,” 1–12.

41 Herzfeld wrote the report in 1923. It was published in 1928 as Rapport Sur l'État Actuel des Ruines de Persépolis et Propositions Pour Leur Conservation (Berlin, 1928); Herzfeld, Ernst, “Preface,” Archaeologische Mittheilungen aus Iran, 1, no. 1 (1929): 2.Google Scholar

42 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Vol. 1: DGT to Foreign Office, 1 October 1923.

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44 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Vol. 3: Herzfeld to Stieve, 26 March 1935.

45 Mittwoch was a member of the German-Persian Society. PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Vol. 1: Schulenburg to Herzfeld, 13 March 1927.

46 Herzfeld told Schulenburg that establishing a branch of the DAI was essential for conducting sustained research projects in Iran. He asserted that he could combine the directorship with the lectures on archaeological topics that the Iranian government requested of him. PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Vol. 1: Herzfeld to Schulenburg, 3 March 1927; Foreign Office to DGT, 22 September 1927; Schulenburg to Foreign Office, 9 January 1928; DGT to Foreign Office, 5 May 1928.

47 Pirniya consulted with Herzfeld while writing his Ancient Iran, which was used as a textbook in the public schools until 1949. Goode, Negotiating for the Past, 153.

48 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Vol. 1: Foreign Office to DGT, 11 September 1926.

49 Gabriel, Erforschung Persiens, 236–37. De Morgan began his excavation at Susa in 1891 and unearthed prehistoric layers, which he determined to be older those than previously found at Babylon. See Childe, Vere Gordon, New Light on the Most Ancient East: The Oriental Prelude to European Prehistory (New York, 1934), 231.Google Scholar French excavations were also carried out in Hamadan, the site of ancient Eckbatana, in 1913.

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56 The articles provided a draft for two of his major works: Zoroaster and His World, published in two volumes in 1947–48, and the posthumously published Persian Empire. The late nineteenth-century German philological scholarship on the Avesta by Christian Bartholomae (the Altiranisches Wörterbuch of 1904) provided a scholarly foundation for Herzfeld's work. Daryaee, Touraj, “The Study of Ancient Iran in the Twentieth Century,” Iranian Studies, 42, no. 4 (September 2009): 580.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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58 Herzfeld, “Zarathustra: Teil I,” 76.

59 Herzfeld followed the work of the American Iranologist, A. V. Williams Jackson, who also saw Zoroaster as a historical figure. Jackson, A. V. Williams, Zoroaster: The Prophet of Ancient Iran (New York, 1965 [1899]).Google Scholar

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69 Herzfeld, “Zarathustra: Teil II,” 118.

70 Reading Herodotus against archaeological evidence—namely the inscriptions at Behistun, Persepolis and Nakhsh-i Rustam (see “Zarathustra: Teil I,” 79)—Herzfeld dismissed him as a central source. As he wrote, “most of what he says can be proved by archaeological observation to be wrong.” Herzfeld, Ernst, Archaeological History of Iran (London, 1935), 39.Google Scholar

71 Meyer wrote that Herzfeld was Germany's “most thorough expert on Persian monuments and culture.” Via his “close contact with the Persian government for many years,” he “has acquainted us with a surprising wealth of archaeological monuments, all of which had been completely unknown.” Meyer, “Zur Einführung,” 6.

72 Ernst Herzfeld Papers, Series 2: Journals, Notebook N-47, 1: 8, 18–19, 37.

73 Meyer, “Zur Einführung,” 6.

74 The central issue here was the fate of the French archaeological concession. PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Vol. 1: Herzfeld to Foreign Office, 28 January 1927. On the political issues around Godard's hire see Grigor, “Recultivating ‘Good Taste’” and Goode, Negotiating for the Past, 127–40.

75 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Vol. 2: Messenger de Teheran, 23 January 1929; “Notice dans l'affaire du traitement de Monsieur le Professeur Herzfeld,” 4 June 1931.

76 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Vols 1–2: Messenger de Teheran, 10 March 1927; Schulenburg to Herzfeld, 8 October 1930.

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78 Herzfeld contributed articles on Persepolis to the Illustrated London News. Ernst Herzfeld, “The Magnificent Discovery at Persepolis: Stairway Sculptures That Will Take Rank Among the Greatest Works of Art Surviving From Antiquity,” The Illustrated London News (25 March 1933), 402–06.

79 Goode, Negotiating for the Past, 151.

80 Goode, Negotiating for the Past, 155; PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Vol. III: Herzfeld to Blücher, 21 July 1934.

81 Goode, Negotiating for the Past, 141–65. According to Goode, Pope had his own record of antiquities smuggling, including items allegedly stolen from Persepolis.

82 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, v.

83 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 5.

84 Ernst Herzfeld, Iran in the Ancient East (London, 1941), 4.

85 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 6–7 (emphasis original).

86 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 7. In this way the controversial question of the Aryan homeland was solved by reference to a native Iranian source, the Avesta.

87 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 8.

88 Herzfeld's contemporary, the archaeologist Childe, had also written on ancient Iranians as “a branch of the Aryan family … in occupation of the highlands of Iran before 1000 B.C.” Childe, The Aryans, 40.

89 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 41.

90 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 41.

91 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 43.

92 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 43.

93 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 75.

94 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 47, 48, 50.

95 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 52. The Iranian interpretation of Alexander is explored by Pierre Briant, Historie de l'Empire Perse: de Cyrus à Alexandre (Paris, 1996).

96 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 53.

97 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 54.

98 Margaret Root, “Prismatic Prehistory: Ernst Herzfeld on Early Iran,” and Pierre Briant, “Milestones in the Development of Achaemenid Historiography in the Era of Ernst Herzfeld,” both in Gunter and Hauser, eds., Ernst Herzfeld, are interesting on this topic and are drawn on in the account that follows.

99 See Briant, “Milestones in the Development of Achaemenid Historiography,” 266–77, on the work of George Rawlinson, Ferdinand Justi and Theodor Nöldeke.

100 Justi, Ferd[inand], “Geschichte Irans von den ältesten Zeiten bis zum Ausgang der Sasaniden,” in Grundriss der Iranischen Philologie, ed. Geiger, Wilhelm and Kuhn, Ernst (Strassburg, 1896), 400.Google Scholar

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102 Root, “Prismatic Prehistory,” 240.

103 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 43.

104 Herzfeld, Archaeological History, 40.

105 Root, “Prismatic Prehistory,” 240.

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110 On Aryanism and anti-colonial nationalism see Ballantyne, Orientalism and Race.

111 Margaret Schlauch's, Who Are the Aryans? (New York, n.d.) was an explicitly anti-fascist rendering of Aryan history. Schlauch argued for returning the topic to the study of human migration, language and culture rather than race.

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113 PA AA Berlin Wipert von Blücher Papers: Persisches Tagebuch, 2: 581.

114 Persisches Tagebuch, 2: 581. Blücher noted that the government's interpretation went beyond Herzfeld's work, which had stressed the historical migration of the Aryans into Iran and not Iran itself as the Aryan homeland.

115 Breasted as cited in Goode, Negotiating for the Past, 159.

116 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Band III: DGT/Blücher to Foreign Office, 25 January 1935.

117 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Band III: Langsdorff to the Reichs- und Preussischen Minister für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung, 20 June 1935.

118 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Band III:Hans Ehelolf to the Reichs- und Preussischen Minister für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung, 27 July 1935.

119 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Band III: Walter Andrae to the Reichs- und Preussischen Minister für Wissenschaft, Erziehung und Volksbildung, 1 August 1935.

120 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Band III: DGT/Blücher to Foreign Office Berlin, No. 137, 25 January 1935. However, Blücher himself disagreed with Herzfeld's assessment of Iran's Aryanness, seeing modern Iran as characterized by centuries of racial mixing. As was common in German scholarship, Blücher raised a barrier between ancient “Aryan purity” and modern Iranian racial degeneracy. Blücher, Persisches Tagebuch, 2: 581–82.

121 Each time Herzfeld was exonerated of the charges of antiquities smuggling, but each exoneration was followed by a further accusation. His luggage was rifled through and belongings were held. Each time Herzfeld defended his ownership of the object in question. PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Band III: DGT/Blücher to Foreign Office, No. 137, 25 January 1935.

122 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Band III: Herzfeld to Blücher, 9 November 1934.

123 Goode, Negotiating for the Past, 162.

124 PA AA Berlin DGT Box 26, III. 10, Band III: Herzfeld to DGT/Repnow, 3 September 1936.

125 According to Root, Arthur Pope and the German archaeologist Erich Schmidt engaged after his death in “a crude and calculated effort systematically to mute Herzfeld's legacy.” See “Prismatic Prehistory,” 247–48.