Special doodle for Jale Inan from Google

Since 1998, important events, artists and holidays that are important for all humanity, such as doodles, which allows us to remember in a beautiful way. GoogleThis time, she has the title of Turkey’s first female archaeologist. Jale Inan He prepared a special doodle for you.

Special doodle for Jale Inan from Google

Google, February 27, 2001 Turkey, which passed away in the history of first woman archaeologist Jale Inancommemorated with a special doodle. It has made efforts to bring the ancient cities of Perge and Side to light with the programmed excavations that have been going on for many years; for displaying the works Antalya and Side museums Inan, who pioneered the establishment of the company, appears among the sculptures in doodle design.

Who is Jale Inan?

She is Turkey’s first female archaeologist. It has made efforts to bring the ancient cities of Perge and Side to light with the programmed excavations that have been going on for many years; She enabled the establishment of Antalya and Side museums to exhibit the unearthed artifacts. Apart from the programmed excavations, she has carried out various rescue excavations against the smuggling of historical artifacts.

She is the daughter of Aziz Ogan, one of Turkey’s first archaeologists, and the wife of Mustafa Inan, one of the leading scientists of the time.

Jale Inan life

He was born in 1914 in Istanbul. His father is Aziz Ogan, a museum curator and archaeologist, and his mother is Mesture Hanım. She completed her high school education at Erenköy Girls’ High School. She became acquainted with archeology at a young age by participating in her father’s professional travels.

With the scholarship of the Aleksander von Humboldt Foundation, he went to Germany in 1934 to study archeology. A year later, he won the Turkish Republic state scholarship. Between 1935-1943, he completed his undergraduate and doctoral studies in classical archeology at the universities of Berlin and Munich. In 1943, Prof. Dr. Next to Rodenwalt “Kunstgeschichtliche Untersuchung der Opferhandlung auf römischen MünzenHe returned to Turkey after completing his doctorate with his thesis.

Professor at the Antiquity Chair of the Faculty of Letters at Istanbul University. Dr. Appointed as the assistant of Clemens Emn Bosch, Jale Inan married Mustafa Inan, whom she met in high school, in 1944. The following year, their only child, Hüseyin, was born.

In 1946, he participated in the establishment of Istanbul University Classical Archeology Chair and was the first assistant of this chair. Dr. He started to work as Arif Müfid Mansel’s assistant. In the same year, together with Arif Müfid Mansel, he started the excavation of the ancient city of Side in Antalya on behalf of the Turkish Historical Society, and the excavation of the ancient city of Perge the following year. He became an associate professor in 1953 and a professor in 1963.

After Mansel, he presided over the excavations of Side between 1974-1980 and Perge between 1975-1987. During his excavations, he worked to transform the Side Roman Bath into the Side Museum. He became the Chair of Classical Archeology in 1975 and held this position until his retirement in 1983.

Apart from the excavations in Side and Perge, Jale Inan conducted rescue excavations in the ancient cities of Kremna (Bucak, Burdur) between 1970-1972 and in Pampphylia Seleucia (Manavgat) between 1972-1979.

He gave very important works on the art of sculpture in the ancient period. The books he published became one of the most important reference works on the Roman and Early Byzantine period portraiture of Anatolia. In 1991, he worked on the excavation and repair of the Temple of Apollo in Side; He carried out the Perge theater excavations in 1992-1993. He became an honorary member of the Turkish Academy of Sciences in 1995.

He spent his final years battling Parkinson’s disease. He died in 2001. He was buried in Zincirlikuyu Cemetery.