The Gunnar Jarring Digital Library
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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
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.
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
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”.
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?
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