Wissenschaftlicher Nachlass dt.-böhm. archäologischer Expedition von 1902

In 2006 at Prague`s city archive and at the "Bayerisches Hauptstaatsarchiv", Munich unpublished documents of the German-Bohemian archaeological expedition to Asia Minor done in the year 1902 have been discovered and are edited here for the first time. These were long time thought to have been lost at least according with the events which led to the closure of Prague`s German university and the expulsion of the german population after May of 1945. The expedition was conducted by leading sudetengerman scientists of Austro-Hungarian`s monarchy: Prague`s Professor Heinrich Swoboda (1856-1926, classical philology), Professor Julius Jüthner (1866-1945, classical philology) at that time University of Freiburg/Fribourg, Switzerland - later Professor at Czernowitz (Bukowina, today Ukraine), Dr. Carl Ludwig Patsch (1865-1945) during that time "Kustos" at "Bosnisch- Herzegowinisches Landesmuseum" at Sarajevo, later Professor of slavic languages at Vienna and last but not least expeditions architect Ing. Fritz Knoll (1872-1940), who later edited the renown results of the austrian excavations of the "Marienkirche" (St. Mary`s) at Ephesos. The valuable documents are illustrating the history of this scientific journey to Asia Minors ancient landscapes and provinces of Isauria, Lycaonia and Eastern-Pamphylia and are containing unreleased letters, documents and fotos. Some results of this expedition were also used by the Vienna art-historian Josef Strzygowski (1862-1941) for completing his pioneering now classic study on church architecture in Asia Minor titled "Kleinasien - Ein Neuland der Kunstgeschichte", which was released in 1903 respectively. Here interesting Strzygowski-letters, at that time Professor of art-history at Austria`s University of Graz (until 1909), came to light, which have a certain biographical value. Furthermore the editors try to explain why the publication of the results took some 33 years to be released finally in 1935 long after World War I, now in the early years of the young Czechoslovakian Republic. This final edition was supervised by Professor Josef Keil (1878-1963) - who also was sudetengerman by birth and later presided the Austrian Archaeological Institute - and supported by his US-american friend, famous classical archaeologist William Hepburn Buckler (1867-1952).