Jale İnan (Turkish: Jale İnan, 1 February 1914 – 26 February 2001) was born in Istanbul, her father being the director of various museums in Turkey
Today’s Google Doodle honors her Dr. Zale Inan, the first Turkish archaeologist.
Jale İnan (Turkish: Jale İnan, February 1, 1914 – February 26, 2001) was born in Istanbul, with her father being the director of various museums in Turkey, while also organizing his own exhibitions. Inan was inspired by her father’s work, while he also supported her in her dream of becoming an archaeologist. In 1934 she finished school and since there was no possibility to study in her country, her father helped her to study abroad. So he went to Berlin where he studied archaeology. She later got a scholarship from the Turkish state and thus continued her studies there. She completed her studies despite the difficulties, due to the Second World War. In 1943 she had already finished her thesis.
In the same year, he returns to Turkey, where he takes a position at Istanbul University. In 1944, she married Mustafa Inan, an engineer who worked at the Istanbul Technical University. The following year she also gave birth to their son, Hussein. In the first years of her work at the University, she mainly archived. In 1946, in collaboration with Arif Mansel, they founded an archeology department at the university. At that time excavations began, together with Mansell, first at Perga and then at Sidis, at the Sanctuary of Apollo, with these excavations lasting until 1966. During the 1960s, Inan began writing articles in Turkish but also in the German language.
During the 1970s he worked on excavations at Krimna, and later in the same decade at Seleucia, where they found the market town, among other things. In 1980 he returned to the excavations of Perga. In 1983, he retired from the University. He continued to work as an archaeologist throughout most of the 1980s and part of the following decade. In 1995, she was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease, ending her outdoor work, now focusing on project publications.
She passed away in 2001. Some of the notable honors she has received are from the Antalya Women’s Museum, where the Most Important Turkish Woman of the Year award was created in her honor
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