Traugott Fuchs, a philologist, painter, poet, teacher, and musician well-known in Istanbul, was a remarkable member of the group of German scholars who fled from Germany after the Nazis came to power. He arrived in Turkey in 1934 at the age of 28, as Leo Spitzer’s promising young assistant in Romanistic studies, and remained here until his death in 1997. Apart from being the first person to initiate Germanistic studies at Istanbul University, he also taught for many years at Robert College and Boğaziçi University. In 2006, under the guidance of Prof. Selçuk Esenbel as project director, the History Department undertook the project of archiving Fuchs’ collection of documents, making it accessible to the general public. Now called the Traugott Fuchs Cultural and Historical Heritage Archive, the collection is comprised of not only Traugott Fuchs’ correspondences from 1934 until his death (more than 5000 letters), but also his translations, unpublished manuscripts, lecture notes, poems, musical compositions, and an impressive corpus of drawings, sketches, and paintings of artistic and sociological significance. The main collaborators of the project are Professor Süheyla Artemel of Yeditepe and Boğaziçi University, and the Fuchs family heirs. Their great efforts over the years to preserve the Fuchs material, to conduct academic research, and to organize exhibitions and workshops, have made it possible to make the material available for researchers in Turkey and abroad, in an archive center at Boğaziçi University where Fuchs spent most of his life. The project members hope that the material will contribute to the field of the history of German emigre “Haimatlos” diaspora intellectuals who have played a remarkable role in transnational intellectual history during and after World War II.

You can find the detailed information on Traugott Fuchs Archives via this link:

http://www.fuchs.boun.edu.tr