The Archive
Traugott Fuchs lived and worked in Istanbul from 1934 to 1997. As a philologist who taught for decades at Istanbul University and Boğaziçi University, he left behind an extensive collection of letters to colleagues, students, friends, and relatives, lesson plans, academic works, and translations from and into Turkish. His estate also includes his literary works, mainly poems, as well as drawings and paintings. He also left behind an extensive library.
All these materials are now housed in the Traugott Fuchs Archive at the Orient-Institut Istanbul. The written estate is cataloged in the Kalliope Union Catalog for personal papers, manuscripts, and publishers’ archives. The table of contents of the Traugott Fuchs estate finding aid can be found here.
The library he left behind is currently being incorporated into the library’s OPAC; books that are not being preserved are being recorded in a database so that, once all of the books left behind have been processed, Traugott Fuchs’s entire private library can be traced. The catalog excerpt of Traugott Fuchs’s books can be found here.
Access to the materials in the archive is subject to certain legal restrictions. More information, as well as a form for requesting access to selected documents, can be found in the terms of use.
Text and collage by Amina Yıldırım
