East Asia Joint Open Access Reading Room In the joint open access reading room of the Oriental Department and the East Asia Department (OLS) you can find about 20.000 titles of reference works, bibliographies

originally comprised 8,016 folding books. F.W.K Müller had studied Theology, before he turned to Oriental and East Asian Cultures and Languages, especially the Arabic, Chinese and Syrian languages. Between [...] of Chinese works into the Manchurian language. Von Moellendorff had studied Law, Linguistics and Oriental Studies. In 1869, he accepted an offer to work under Sir Robert Hart (1835-1911) in China’s Imperial

materials, such as safe storage materials, is possible only in the joint open access reading room ( Orient- und Ostasienlesesaal ; OLS) of the department. Ordering There are several ways for ordering materials

humanities and social sciences as well as for the field of economics. In addition to historically oriented works, contemporary Japan research is also taken into account. Scientific literature on Japan in

are available in Cyrillic script, please contact the Oriental Department (Research areas: Ancient Oriental studies, Indian studies, General Oriental studies, South Asian studies, as well as Iranian studies [...] accessible; they are located in front of the entrance to the Joint Open Access Reading Room (OLS) of the Oriental and East Asia Departments. Hanyu-Pinyin-Catalogue Title and author catalogues for Chinese works [...] (Manuskript erhalten in Biblioteka Narodowa, Warschau) List of Libri sinensis from the Index of Oriental Manuscripts of the Catalogus Manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Electoralis Brandenburgensis Coloniensis

be found on the web page Accession Lists . The joint open access reading room ( OLS ) of both the Oriental and the East Asia Departments allocates some 20,000 items of reference materials, bibliographies

hands of the Manuscripts Department. In 1919, they were transferred, joining the Oriental manuscripts, to form the Oriental Department. Finally, on July 1st, 1922, they were moved to the newly-established [...] relocated due to the war, was not returned to Berlin. Only 24,000 items found their way back to the Oriental Department of the East Berlin Staatsbibliothek (since 1969: Asia-Africa-Department). A smaller part