Inventarele inedite ale Bibliotecii Institutului de Turcologie de la Iaşi, 1940-1945 (II)
Unpublished Inventories of the Library of the Turkology Institute in Iaşi, 1940-1945 (II)

Summary/Abstract: As part of the Institute of Turkology in Iaşi, implementing the 1939 project, Franz Babinger and Mihail Guboglu organized and endowed with books, dictionaries and periodicals, a library of turkology fairly well supplied at the time. It included over 1,000 titles and over 2,000 volumes. To this purpose, turkology books, dictionaries and periodicals were bought (from Turkey, Germany, Romania and Odessa) to an amount of 100,000 lei, an annuity expressly included in the annual budget of the Faculty of Humanities and Philosophy of Iaşi; several volumes recovered from the old public and private libraries of Odessa, destroyed during the fighting that took place in that area in October 1941, were brought to Iaşi; the library received donations from Franz Babinger and other Romanians, historians of Iaşi or Bucharest, from the Embassy of Turkey in Bucharest and from the Turkish ambassador, the man of letters and diplomat Hamdullâh Suphî Tanrıöver. In November 1944, under the Russian-Romanian Armistice Agreement of 12/13 September of the same year, Mihail Guboglu was forced to return to the Russian authorities the turkology publications and books procured in Odessa, labelled as “goods coming from the Soviet Union”. In October 1945, the specialty volumes left in the library were “loaned” to the Institute for Balkan Studies in Bucharest, while the volumes on the “history of Romanians” were sent to the History Institute “A.D. Xenopol” of Iaşi. This is how the valuable collection of turkology books and publications from the Institute of Iaşi was scattered to the winds. The Turkology Institute in Iaşi, together with its specialized library, has created an educational, scientific and moral climate favourable to the development of turkology-related activities in the cultural capital of Moldavia in particular, and in Romania in general.

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