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References: (1) Die Handschriften der Sammlung Oskar Rescher in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 3 vol’s (Wiesbaden: Verlag Franz Steiner, 2005-2006); (2) Leon Nemoy, “The Rescher Collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts” Yale University Library Gazette, vol. 47 (no. 2), October 1972), pp. 57-99. |
References: (1) Die Handschriften der Sammlung Oskar Rescher in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 3 vol’s (Wiesbaden: Verlag Franz Steiner, 2005-2006); (2) Leon Nemoy, “The Rescher Collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts” Yale University Library Gazette, vol. 47 (no. 2), October 1972), pp. 57-99. |
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Additional information can be found in the German Wikipedia entry on [http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oskar_Rescher Oskar Rescher] |
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RESCHER, Oskar, also Osman Reşer (1883-1972) was a prolific German-Turkish scholar in Arabic, Persian, and Turkish literature who specialized in pre-Islamic Arabic poetry and Ottoman studies. After taking his doctorate at Breslau in 1909 he moved to Istanbul to work in the libraries there. During World War I he served in the German army as censor for Arabic speaking prisoners of war. In 1919 he returned to Turkey where he spent the rest of his life and produced numerous scholarly studies and translated many texts into German. Most of his work appeared in small editions in Turkey but gradually made its way into the mainstream of European oriental scholarship. He devoted much effort over many years to build up a large collection of Arabic and Persian manuscripts. These now form the Rescher Manuscript Collection of the Berlin Staatsbibilothek as well as a collection at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University.
References: (1) Die Handschriften der Sammlung Oskar Rescher in der Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, 3 vol’s (Wiesbaden: Verlag Franz Steiner, 2005-2006); (2) Leon Nemoy, “The Rescher Collection of Arabic, Persian, and Turkish Manuscripts” Yale University Library Gazette, vol. 47 (no. 2), October 1972), pp. 57-99.
Additional information can be found in the German Wikipedia entry on Oskar Rescher