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From: "Marzolph, Ulrich" <[log in to unmask]> This is to share the sad news that yesterday, prominent Russian Orientalist scholar Dr Olimpiada Scheglova passed away. Written by an expert in the history of Persian lithographed books, Scheglova's catalogues and books are indispensable for bibliographers and researchers specializing in the history of printing and publishing in Iran. Since Scheglova mainly published in Russian, her numerous publications have probably not received the international attention they deserve. Her English language publications include the following: Lithograph Versions of Persian Manuscripts of Indian Manufacture in the Nineteenth Century, Manuscripta Orientalia 5 (1999), pp. 12–22 The Repertoire of Books in Persian Published Lithographically in Turkestan During 1883-1917, in History of Printing and Publishing in the Languages and Countries of the Middle East, ed. Philip Sadgrove, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2004, pp. 17-23 Lithography i. in Persia. In Encyclopaedia Iranica (2009) http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/lithography-i-in-persia Lithography ii. in India http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/lithography-ii-in-india Lithography iii. in Central Asia http://www.iranicaonline.org/articles/lithography-iii-in-central-asia The following is the praise Scheglova received from Prof. Dr. Irina Popova, director of the St. Petersburg Institute of Oriental manuscripts, at the occassion of her jubilee in 2011 (copy-paste from http://www.orientalstudies.ru/eng/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2762&Itemid=48) Dr O. Shcheglova graduated from Leningrad State University, where she was a disciple of Prof I.P. Petrushevsky. From 1958, she has worked at our Institute, successfully carrying on traditions of Russian Iranian Studies. She is a leading expert in the Persian tradition of lithography. She was the first scholar worldwide to study in-depth various issues of development of book printing in Iran, India, Central Asia, to define the importance of this phenomenon for the spiritual culture of Middle East. Her studies are based upon her long meticulous work for the cataloguing of collections of Persian lithographs kept in St Petersburg. Thanks to her highest professionalism, her catalogues can be treated as precious sources of various information for scholars. She issued more than 60 papers, including 6 monographs such as The Iranian Lithographic Book [Иранская литографированная книга] (Мoscow 1979, Persian translation published in Iran 2009), two volumes of The Catalogue of Lithographic Books in Persian Kept at the Leningrad Branch of the Institute of Oriental Studies, the USSR Academy of Sciences [Каталог литографированных книг на персидском языке в собрании ЛО ИВ АН СССР] (Moscow 1975), The Catalogue of Lithographic Books in Persian Kept at Leningrad State University [Каталог литографированных книг на персидском языке в собрании ЛГУ] (Moscow 1989), Lithographic Books in Persian Published in India [Персоязычная литографированная книга индийского производства] (St Petersburg 2001), The Catalogue of Lithographic Books in Persian Kept at the Russian National Library [Каталог литографированных книг на персидском языке из собрания Российской национальной библиотеки] (Moscow 2002). The latest book of Dr O. Shcheglova, The Lithographic Book Printing in Persian in Turkestan and Bukhara [Литографское книгоиздание на персидском языке в Туркестане и Бухаре] (St Petersburg 2011), was highly appraised by academics for the author’s deep insight into the area of her study, accuracy of statements and thoroughness in work. The Habilitation Dissertation by Dr O. Shcheglova (defended in 1995) was also devoted to the study if Persian lithographic books kept at various St Petersburg collections. Dr O. Shcheglova takes an active part in social life of our Institute, she was the academic secretary of the Department of Middle Eastern Studies for more than 15 years. Prof. Dr. Ulrich Marzolph Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum 1.625 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 37073 Göttingen Germany http://wwwuser.gwdg.de/~umarzol/ [1] https://uni-goettingen.academia.edu/UlrichMarzolph [2]