Germany's centre for cartographic holdings. It collects maps, atlases, views, and specialist literature from every country and in every language. Holdings as of September 01/2021: 1,200,000 map sheets (among [...] (among these are 30,000 manuscript maps) 250,000 digitised map sheets 2,900 CD-ROMs 36,000 atlases 155,000 views 38,000 books on cartography 800 globes On behalf of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) [...] history of collection growth. Topographic maps of different scales and types from every country of the world are collected and listed in the separate database Topo-List . The department acquires literature on

(Australia, South America, Siberia). Thematic maps and atlases (broad selection) International map series, national atlases, and regional atlases containing complex thematic maps (complete selection) Broad [...] on the period 1800 to 1912. Publications and items which are collected: Maps and atlases Selection of all maps and atlases published between 1800 to 1912, within the framework of the Sammlung Deutscher Drucke [...] are interesting from the methodical point of view (collected on a very selective basis) General world atlases with a comprehensive index: selected in case of important changes or for methodical reasons Aerial

the department acquires, catalogues, and holds items from all countries and all parts of the world: Maps Atlases Globes Topographic views Cartographic literature Online resources StabiKat BETA Modern maps [...] Kartographie und Geobasisdaten Schmuckvolles im Kartenbestand Titelblatt aus Martino Martini: Novus Atlas Sinensis - Amsterdam: Blaeu, 1658 [Ausschnitt aus Signatur: 2° Kart. E 426] Frühe kartographische [...] Farblithographie Anfänge preußischer Landesaufnahme Previous Next 75 years after its division (the end of World War II was the turning point) and 30 years after German reunification, the map department was the

impr. rari fol. 641 Portulan-Atlas, Battista Agnese, Genua 1540 Top items of our collections: manuscripts, Ms. Ham. 529 Astrolabium von Thurneysser zum Thurn, 1575 Portulan-Atlas, Battista Agnese, Genua 1540 [...] include, for example, occidental, oriental and East Asian manuscripts, geographical maps, globes and atlases, music scores, autographs and bequests as well as historical and modern printed matter. This overview [...] around 450,000 items published between 1500 and 1939 rank among the most important collections in the world, especially because of the large quantity of manuscript maps from the 18th and 19th centuries. Up

East Asia Languages and Countries The major part of the collection is written in Asian languages. Library acquisition policies take into consideration the different research subjects within the fields [...] New Guinea, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam. Books and periodicals in Western languages dealing with the respective countries of the region and treating topics relating to East Asia are [...] Special Research Collections: History, including social and economic history, religion and philosophy, language, literature and ethnology, anthropology and anthropogeography, education and higher education,

among them original hand drawings of the Prussian surveys Atlases, mainly from the 19th and 20th centuries All types of city maps from around the world Views and vedute until the middle of the 20th century

Department is responsible for Works in the languages of the Near East, Asia and Africa, with the exception of East Asian languages Translations of works from the languages of the Near East, Asia and Africa, including [...] including the East Asian languages Chinese, Korean and Japanese, into Western European languages Translations into the above mentioned languages (in part) The conversion of the Oriental Department's old [...] on in 2015, the two card catalogues that Deutsche Staatsbibliothek der DDR took custody of after World War II: AK-Or II (publications up to 1974, acquisitions of Preußische Staatsbibliothek and Deutsche

studied Theology, before he turned to Oriental and East Asian Cultures and Languages, especially the Arabic, Chinese and Syrian languages. Between 1887 and 1928, Müller worked at the Ethnological Museum in Berlin [...] in Krakow. They mostly contain works on the Manchurian language and literature, as well as translations of Chinese works into the Manchurian language. Von Moellendorff had studied Law, Linguistics and Oriental [...] supposedly entered the Staatsbibliothek in 1931. In the course of the evacuations during the Second World War, the collection had been allocated to the three locations of Banz, Beuron und Fürstenstein. Today

Virtual Catalog (KVK) Covers the holdings of many German libraries and libraries worldwide. WorldCat WorldCat is the world's largest bibliographic database and contains catalogues of more than 10.000 libraries [...] k (ZDB) The ZDB (Union Catalogue of Serials) contains serial titles of German libraries in all languages. It does not contain contents. Current Information on user services: Service Blog | Newsletter on

s in other African languages such as Herero, Zaramo, Xhosa or Shambala. Noteworthy is a legacy of the Africanist A. Klingenheben (1886-1967) with notes on the Liberian Vai language (Hs or 2372). In a second [...] Orient African Manuscripts The cataloguing of the African manuscript holdings began only after the 2nd World War and as part of the KOHD project. Subsequently, two partial volumes "African Manuscripts" of the [...] the Africanist Ernst Dammann, contains 687 entries and records manuscripts (mostly poems, letters, language samples and word lists or correspondence from mission stations) from several German libraries and