Conrad Schick: Öncü Mimar, Arkeolog ve On dokuzuncu Yüzyıl Kudüs Tarihçisi

Year 2025, Volume: 3 Issue: 2, 56 - 75, 06.07.2025

Translator: Celal Öney

Abstract

On dokuzuncu yüzyılda Kudüs'ü ziyaret eden ya da bu şehirde yaşamış olan yüzlerce Oryantalist, arkeolog ve misyonerden hiçbirisi Küdüs’e Conrad Schick kadar etki bırakmamıştır. Conrad Schick, eğitilmiş bir mimar olmamasına rağmen, yine de Kudüs’teki on dokuzuncu yüzyıla ait pek çok binanın tasarımını yaptı ve bu binaların inşa süreçlerini de denetlemiştir. Diğer taraftan kendisi bir arkeolog da olmamasına rağmen şehrin yani Kudüs’ün farklı yerlerinde kazılar yaparak şehrin farklı tarihi dönemlerini araştırmış ve Kudüs ile ilgili çok sayıda makale ve arkeolojik rapor yayınlamıştır. Schick, ayrıca üç boyutlu maket yapma konusunda eğitimli olmamasına rağmen, Kudüs'teki tarihi anıt sayılabilecek eserlerin etkileyici ve doğru modellerinin üretiminde de mükemmel bir kişiydi. Schick, yine kendisinin bir Coğrafyacı olmamasına rağmen Kudüs’ü hazırladığı haritalarla belgeleyen bir kişiliktir. Bir bütün olarak Conrad Schick'in, on dokuzuncu yüzyılın ikinci yarısında Kudüs'teki yakın Avrupa endişelerinin toplamını somutlaştırdığı ve farklı tarihsel ve sosyal bilimleri su götürmez bir şekilde benzersiz bir kişilikle bir araya getirdiği söylenebilir.

Keywords

Conrad Schick , Filistin , Kudüs , Mimar

Conrad Schick: Pioneering Architect Archaeologist and Historian of Nienteenth Century Jerusalem

Abstract

Among the hundreds of Orientalists, archaeologists, and missionaries who visited or lived in Jerusalem in the nineteenth century, none left such an impact on the city as Conrad Schick. Not an architect by training, he nevertheless designed and supervised the construction of a large number of nineteenth-century buildings in the city. He was not an archaeologist either, but he researched different historical periods, carried out excavations in different locations of the city, and published a large number of articles and archaeological reports. Schick was not trained in making models, he excelled in the production of attractive and accurate models of monuments in Jerusalem. And though he was not a geographer, he documented the city through maps. It could be said that on the whole Conrad Schick embodied the sum of imminent European concerns in Jerusalem in the second half of the nineteenth century, typifying the different historical and social sciences in combination with an unequivocally unique personality.

Keywords

Conrad Schick , Palesine , Jerusalem , Architect

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