Philipp Franz von Siebold papers, 1609-1927 (bulk 1820-1860).

Open to research.

Correspondence, memoranda, writings, reports, notes, printed matter, and other papers. Consists primarily of von Siebold's notes and writings on the fauna, flora, geology, and meteorology of Japan. Includes observations and comments on Japanese culture, customs, history, and languages. Also includes material relating to Korea and Taiwan.

Microfilm edition only of Set I: Library of Congress Siebold Collection available, no. 18,777.

Microfilm edition only of Set II: Bochum Siebold Collection available, no. 18,935.

Microfilm of originals in Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Bochum, Germany). Washington, D.C. Library of Congress. 1983.

Microfilm of originals in Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Bochum, Germany). Bochum, Germany.

Germany: Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Bochum

Collection material in German and Dutch.

German physician, explorer, and scientist.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms013009

Transferred from the U.S. State Department in 1948 as a group of miscellaneous captured German documents. Arranged and filmed by the Library of Congress in 1983 and the originals sent to Ruhr-Universität Bochum in Bochum, Germany, where they were united with a larger collection of Siebold's papers in that institution. Microfilm of the Siebold collection at Bochum was received as an exchange from the university in 1984.