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1889 - Stockholm and Christiania

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GB 891 RAS ICO-RAS ICO/1

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5 items typed and printed material + object

Date(s)

  • 1889 - 1902 (Creation)

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Name of creator

_International Congress of Orientalists_
_Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland_
(1823-)

Biographical history

The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland was founded by the eminent Sanskrit scholar Sir Henry Thomas Colebrooke on the 15th March 1823. It received its Royal Charter from King George IV on the 11th August 1824 'for the investigation of subjects connected with and for the encouragement of science, literature and the arts in relation to Asia'. It continues as a forum for those who are interested in the languages, cultures and history of Asia to meet and exchange ideas.

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Royal Asiatic Society Archives

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The 8th International Congress of Orientalists was held in Stockholm and Christiania in 1889. Material from this conference is: * "Menu du Diner Offert au VIII Congrès International des Orientalistes, Stockholm Le 7 Sept 1889" - Colour, printed pamphlet with a dinner menu in French, followed by poems in multiple languages and translations in either English, French or German, each dedicated to one of the courses. * Silver and enamelled drinking horn presented by the King of Sweden to the Congress. Within original presentation case. * Note describing the drinking horn and quoting an extract from the Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society 1902, when it was recorded that the horn should be kept at the Society. * Two copies of the pamphlet "Quousque Tandem? Der Achte Internationale Orientalisten-Congress: Und Der Neunte? Eine Zusammenstellung von Albr. Weber" - Printed in Berlin, 1891.

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Language of material

  • Akkadian
  • Ancient Egyptian
  • Arabic
  • Bihari
  • Chinese
  • Coptic
  • English
  • French
  • German
  • Hebrew
  • Himachali
  • Japanese
  • Javanese
  • Malay
  • Manchu
  • Ottoman Turkish
  • Persian
  • Sanskrit
  • Semitic Language
  • Syriac
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