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Mainz University houses internationally prominent library for Turkic Studies
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inz University houses internationally prominent library for Turkic Studies
With its very rare books, valuable antiquities, and an extensive collection of material, the Library for Turkic Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one of the best in the world. Unique in Germany, there are only a few other libraries worldwide that bear comparison with it in that it houses a comprehensive collection that covers all Turkic languages. Turkic constitutes a language family that, in addition to Turkish, includes more than 20 other languages spoken in an area stretching from Turkey to China and from Russia to Afghanistan. This family includes minority languages such as Salar, which today is spoken by only some 60,000 people in China, together with languages that use Arabic or Cyrillic characters, such as New Uighur and Yakut, respectively. The collection at the library includes some 50,000 items encompassing periodicals and publications such as grammar books, dictionaries, classic and modern literature as well as reference works.
"The library mainly contains linguistic works, as Turkic Studies in Mainz has traditionally concentrated on linguistics. However, the spectrum of material has been successively expanded," explained Junior Professor Dr. László Károly, Executive Director of the Department of Oriental Studies. The visitors to the library are thus primarily scholars and students doing research. However, foreign visiting scholars are also repeatedly surprised by the wealth of "treasures" held by the library.
One of the library?s jewels is a first edition of an Ottoman Divan, a collection of lyrical poetry published in 1889. The valuable antiquities collection includes several books dating to the period of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1923. "One of our oldest books is the 1595 account of the journey undertaken by Johannes Leunclavius," said Károly. Among the rare books are also publications by renowned scholars of Turcology on the language spoken by the Yellow Uighurs in China, which is threatened with extinction. "They are some of the very few language descriptions of Yellow Uighur that can be found anywhere in the world," emphasized Károly. Uighur doctoral candidates from China regularly come to Mainz University to learn about linguistic methodologies in seminars held at JGU. Here they do not only have access to the large primary collection but also to the collection's linguistic books.
As the cost of maintaining and expanding the turcological collection of the library is extensive, the library is more than happy to receive support, be it in the form of books on the subject or monetary donations.
Images:
http://www.uni-mainz.de/bilder_presse/05_turkologie_bibliothek_01.jpg
A copy of the journal Çocuk bahçesi dating to 1905
photo: Stefan F. Sämmer
http://www.uni-mainz.de/bilder_presse/05_turkologie_bibliothek_02.jpg
The "Wuti Qingwen" or "Pentaglot": The famous Manchu-Tibetan-Mongolian-Uighur-Chinese dictionary compiled in the 17th and 18th centuries
photo: Stefan F. Sämmer
http://www.uni-mainz.de/bilder_presse/05_turkologie_bibliothek_03.jpg
Junior Professor Dr. László Károly, Executive Director of the Department of Oriental Studies, presenting a French-Ottoman dictionary of 1828
photo: Stefan F. Sämmer
Further information:
Junior Professor Dr. László Károly
Department of Oriental Studies
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
D 55099 Mainz, GERMANY
phone +49 6131 39-38375
fax +49 6131 39-38378
e-mail: karoly@uni-mainz.de
http://www.orientalistik.uni-mainz.de/172.php [in German]
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
Saarstr. 21
55122 Mainz
Deutschland
Telefon: +49 6131 39-0
Telefax: +49 6131 39-22919
URL: http://www.uni-mainz.de
(pressrelations) - houses internationally prominent library for Turkic Studies
With its very rare books, valuable antiquities, and an extensive collection of material, the Library for Turkic Studies at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) is one of the best in the world. Unique in Germany, there are only a few other libraries worldwide that bear comparison with it in that it houses a comprehensive collection that covers all Turkic languages. Turkic constitutes a language family that, in addition to Turkish, includes more than 20 other languages spoken in an area stretching from Turkey to China and from Russia to Afghanistan. This family includes minority languages such as Salar, which today is spoken by only some 60,000 people in China, together with languages that use Arabic or Cyrillic characters, such as New Uighur and Yakut, respectively. The collection at the library includes some 50,000 items encompassing periodicals and publications such as grammar books, dictionaries, classic and modern literature as well as reference works.
"The library mainly contains linguistic works, as Turkic Studies in Mainz has traditionally concentrated on linguistics. However, the spectrum of material has been successively expanded," explained Junior Professor Dr. László Károly, Executive Director of the Department of Oriental Studies. The visitors to the library are thus primarily scholars and students doing research. However, foreign visiting scholars are also repeatedly surprised by the wealth of "treasures" held by the library.
One of the library?s jewels is a first edition of an Ottoman Divan, a collection of lyrical poetry published in 1889. The valuable antiquities collection includes several books dating to the period of the Ottoman Empire prior to 1923. "One of our oldest books is the 1595 account of the journey undertaken by Johannes Leunclavius," said Károly. Among the rare books are also publications by renowned scholars of Turcology on the language spoken by the Yellow Uighurs in China, which is threatened with extinction. "They are some of the very few language descriptions of Yellow Uighur that can be found anywhere in the world," emphasized Károly. Uighur doctoral candidates from China regularly come to Mainz University to learn about linguistic methodologies in seminars held at JGU. Here they do not only have access to the large primary collection but also to the collection's linguistic books.
As the cost of maintaining and expanding the turcological collection of the library is extensive, the library is more than happy to receive support, be it in the form of books on the subject or monetary donations.
Images:
http://www.uni-mainz.de/bilder_presse/05_turkologie_bibliothek_01.jpg
A copy of the journal Çocuk bahçesi dating to 1905
photo: Stefan F. Sämmer
http://www.uni-mainz.de/bilder_presse/05_turkologie_bibliothek_02.jpg
The "Wuti Qingwen" or "Pentaglot": The famous Manchu-Tibetan-Mongolian-Uighur-Chinese dictionary compiled in the 17th and 18th centuries
photo: Stefan F. Sämmer
http://www.uni-mainz.de/bilder_presse/05_turkologie_bibliothek_03.jpg
Junior Professor Dr. László Károly, Executive Director of the Department of Oriental Studies, presenting a French-Ottoman dictionary of 1828
photo: Stefan F. Sämmer
Further information:
Junior Professor Dr. László Károly
Department of Oriental Studies
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU)
D 55099 Mainz, GERMANY
phone +49 6131 39-38375
fax +49 6131 39-38378
e-mail: karoly(at)uni-mainz.de
http://www.orientalistik.uni-mainz.de/172.php [in German]
Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
Saarstr. 21
55122 Mainz
Deutschland
Telefon: +49 6131 39-0
Telefax: +49 6131 39-22919
URL: http://www.uni-mainz.de
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Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz (JGU)
Saarstr. 21
55122 Mainz
Deutschland
Telefon: +49 6131 39-0
Telefax: +49 6131 39-22919
URL: http://www.uni-mainz.de
  
  
  
Datum: 05.11.2013 - 12:21 Uhr
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