The Gunnar Jarring Digital Library

The Gunnar Jarring Digital Library Research in a broad Eurasian perspective with digitization of materials from the private library of

The core of the physical Gunnar Jarring Central Eurasia Collection consists of around 5000 volumes – mostly printed books from the 19th and 20th centuries but also manuscripts, catalogues and maps – once part of the private library of late Ambassador Gunnar Jarring (1907–2002). More than 3000 off prints, most of them with dedication inscriptions, are included in the present collection. In 2012, th

ese precious works were donated by the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, History and Antiquities to the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul, where they now constitute a crucial part of the research environment at this Institute. Besides travelogues and related literature, linguistic treatises and dictionaries for a great number of languages can be found in the collection, together with books on history, religion, literature and several other disciplines. Many pieces were gifts to the Ambassador from a broad circle of colleagues, friends and admirers. New gifts are continuously being received from scholars who feel honored to make a donation in memory of Gunnar Jarring. The Gunnar Jarring Digital Library is part of a digitization project with initial funding from the Swedish foundation Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (2011–2014). This project is conducted in cooperation with the Sven Hedin Foundation at the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and at a global level with the International Dunhuang Project (IDP) – a network for the coordination of databases for collections from the Eastern Silk Road. Rare and fragile manuscripts and printed matters as well as other objects, such as photos, maps and drawings in the Jarring Collection at the Swedish Research Institute in Istanbul (SRII) have been digitized for storage and presented on the website http://www.jarringcollection.se/.

Two texts that might be of interest to our followers – one in English, https://www.birgitschlyter.se/lexicon/Turki_Lexic...
09/06/2023

Two texts that might be of interest to our followers – one in English, https://www.birgitschlyter.se/lexicon/Turki_Lexicon.Forthcoming.pdf, and the other in Swedish,https://www.birgitschlyter.se/essa/Toppdiplomaten_som_blev_uigurernas_basta_van.pdf – on the much longed-for future 2nd edition of “An Eastern Turki – English Dictionary” compiled by Gunnar Jarring.

Photos:
The diplomat and UN negotiator who was once a young Ph.D. student riding on horseback across the Pamir Mountains for fieldwork among the Uyghurs in Xinjiang.

29/01/2022

A Ph.D. thesis on medical texts from the Jarring Collection at Lund:

"Languages of healing: Theories, practice and terminology within Turki medicine in the late 19th and early 20th centuries", by the SIPCATS associate Patrick Hällzon.

The thesis was defended at Uppsala University under the supervision of professors László Karoly and Birsel Koç and with the opponent Prof. Julian Rentzsch on zoom from Mainz, Germany.

At the Swedish Embassy, New DelhiGUNNAR JARRING IN INDIA AND KASHMIR“The present compound of the Swedish Embassy was cho...
09/04/2019

At the Swedish Embassy, New Delhi

GUNNAR JARRING IN INDIA AND KASHMIR
“The present compound of the Swedish Embassy was chosen by Gunnar Jarring in September 1951, as he was about to leave his position as Sweden’s first envoy in newly independent India. [… …] A few years later, in 1957, he was back as UN mediator in the dispute between India and Pakistan over Kashmir – a region that Jarring knew well after linguistic and ethnographic fieldwork in Srinagar in 1935. Ambassador Jarring is probably one of the very few who have been engaged in Kashmir and its history both scientifically and at a political top level.” [From my “7th Whabiz Memorial Lecture” on 4 April, 2019; abstract: https://www.dropbox.com/s/p88nkns6a6po2r0/Abstract.Jarring.India.pdf?dl=0]

The photo below is to be seen in the office building of the Swedish Embassy in the district of Chanakyapuri, New Delhi.

GRASSROOTS PHILOLOGY FOR A TOP DIPLOMAT – a lecture by Prof. Birgit Schlyter, Stockholm, on the life and career of Gunna...
08/04/2019

GRASSROOTS PHILOLOGY FOR A TOP DIPLOMAT –
a lecture by Prof. Birgit Schlyter, Stockholm, on the life and career of Gunnar Jarring (1907-2002), delivered on 4 April, 2019, at Nordic Centre in India, New Delhi, as

”The 7th Whabiz Merchant Memorial Lecture”

From the lecture:
“As a diplomat, Gunnar Jarring climbed to the top. As a scholar, he remained at the grassroots. [... ...]
Scientifically, Jarring was a conservative philologist, faithful to what he had learnt and developed as a graduate student at the University of Lund in the 1930s. On the other hand, in his attitude and approach to language and, more generally speaking, to research in the humanities, he was in many respects ahead of his time. Thus, the scholar we have before us is an analytically conservative philologist but a methodologically pioneering language researcher.”

Abstract:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/p88nkns6a6po2r0/Abstract.Jarring.India.pdf?dl=0

THE UIGHURS IN CENTRAL ASIAA one-day seminar in Swedish organized at Uppsala University by Patrick Hällzon, Ph.D. Cand. ...
24/11/2018

THE UIGHURS IN CENTRAL ASIA
A one-day seminar in Swedish organized at Uppsala University by Patrick Hällzon, Ph.D. Cand. in Turkic Languages, and Ingvar Svanberg, Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies.

PROGRAMMET

Föredrag kl. 10-00 – 11.15:

“Xinjiang – region i Centralasien”, Johan Fresk, bitr. studierektor i kinesiska, Stockholms universitet

”Språksituationen i Xinjiang”, Joakim Enwall, professor i kinesiska, Uppsala universitet

”Språkforskaren Gunnar Jarring”, Birgit Schlyter, professor i centralasienstudier, Stockholm, Istanbul

”Forna dagars uigurer längs Sidenvägen”, László Károly, professor i turkiska språk, och Christiane Schaefer, universitetslektor i jämförande indoeuropeisk språkforskning, Uppsala universitet

Mingel och musik kl. 11.15 – 12.00
Sidenvägsorkestern under ledning av spelmannen Muhtar Abdukerim. Sång och färgsprakande dans

Föredrag kl. 12.00 – 14.45:

”Traditionell medicin hos uigurerna”, Patrick Hällzon, doktorand i turkiska språk, Uppsala universitet

”Personliga reflektioner kring konstutbildning i Xinjiang”, Nijat Hushur, uigurisk konstnär

”Svensk mission i Östturkestan”, Margareta Höök Wennfors, författare och föreläsare

”Uigurisk poesi”, Abdushukur Mämät, poet och historiker
”Loplikerna – fiskarbefolkning i öknen”, Ingvar Svanberg, forskare vid IRES, Uppsala universitet

”Kashgarsamlingen i Etnografiska museet”, Håkan Wahlquist, föreståndare för Sven Hedins Stiftelse

A NEW DICTIONARY DEVOTED TO UYGHUR CULTURAL HISTORYTo appear: “An Eastern Turki – English Dialect Dictionary”, 2nd editi...
10/08/2018

A NEW DICTIONARY DEVOTED TO UYGHUR CULTURAL HISTORY

To appear:

“An Eastern Turki – English Dialect Dictionary”, 2nd edition
Compiled by Gunnar Jarring, edited by Birgit Schlyter

Read more on www.sipcatsdirector.wordpress.com

Congratulations to colleagues in the project "Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online" (ATMO; htt...
10/06/2018

Congratulations to colleagues in the project "Annotated Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online" (ATMO; https://uyghur.ittc.ku.edu/atmo.html) with publications of digitized materials from the Gunnar Jarring Collection at Lund University Library. A great achievement!

Here is Birgit Schlyter when she finally gets her hands on one of our major discoveries, the handwritten Eastern Turki d...
23/03/2018

Here is Birgit Schlyter when she finally gets her hands on one of our major discoveries, the handwritten Eastern Turki dictionary by the missionary and turkologist Gustaf Raquette (1871-1945), at Lund University Library!

Gustaf Raquette who was Gunnar Jarring’s mentor and supervisor at Lund University conducted linguistic fieldwork while working as a missionary in Kashgar. This manuscript has been a great discovery in the final stages of editing the 2nd edition of Gunnar Jarring’s “Eastern Turki – English Dialect Dictionary”.

Hey, experts on the Uyghur language: In his new Eastern Turki Dictionary, Gunnar Jarring refers to the word a:ni in the ...
23/03/2018

Hey, experts on the Uyghur language: In his new Eastern Turki Dictionary, Gunnar Jarring refers to the word a:ni in the text below from a late 19th century French publication (Grenard, F. (J.-L. Dutreuil de Rhins), Mission scientifique dans La Haute Asie). How does this word relate to the following xuarza:r eylemish?

Work at Universitetsbiblioteket, Lunds universitet for the 2nd edition of Gunnar Jarring’s “Eastern Turki – English Dial...
22/03/2018

Work at Universitetsbiblioteket, Lunds universitet for the 2nd edition of Gunnar Jarring’s “Eastern Turki – English Dialect Dictionary”.

Does anyone know the names of gates in the old, now non-existing city wall of Kashgar? In the typed version of Jarring’s original handwritten manuscript, the name qura dervaza appears (in a slightly different phonetic spelling). This may be a spelling mistake by the typist for qum dervaza. Or were there one gate called qum dervaza and another one under the name of qura dervaza? Yet another gate mentioned by Jarring was called yarbagh dervaza. What does yarbagh mean?

Letters to Dr. Nils Ambolt - Digitalized materials from the Gunnar Jarring Collection at Lund University!18 letters and ...
19/02/2018

Letters to Dr. Nils Ambolt -
Digitalized materials from the Gunnar Jarring Collection at Lund University!

18 letters and other documents in Eastern Turki, addressed to Dr. Nils Ambolt, the astronomer of the Sven Hedin expedition to Central Asia, during his stay in Khotan in 1933. The collection includes official documents issued by the Revolutionary Government of Khotan.

http://www.alvin-portal.org/alvin/view.jsf?pid=alvin-record%3A30068&dswid=-6034

18/02/2018

Travelling along the Silk Road.

03/02/2018

Thousands of Uyghur Muslims are currently being detained in cramped conditions at so-called "political education" camps in China's restive far-western region of Xinjiang.

11/01/2018

As Central Asia was transformed under Soviet rule, one man made a remarkable record of life in the fledgling Uzbek S.S.R. before being driven from his career and toward tragedy.

A Christmas card from Eastern Turkestan in 1935!British Consul Eric Teichman spent Christmas of 1935 traveling in the Pa...
24/12/2017

A Christmas card from Eastern Turkestan in 1935!

British Consul Eric Teichman spent Christmas of 1935 traveling in the Pamir Mountains together with his travel companions, on his way to India. You can read more about Teichman’s travels at http://www.jarringcollection.se/travel/journey-to-turkistan/

Merry Christmas from the Gunnar Jarring Digital Library!

03/12/2017

Welcome to a SIPCATS book launch with the editor, Professor Seçuk Esenbel, Boğaziçi University. Japan on the Silk Road: Encounters and Perspectives of Politics and Culture in Eurasia edited by Prof…

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