 It was hampered by two world wars and then by decades of German division into two states with the Cold War's "iron curtain" in between, separating scholars, and also scattering portions of his literary estates.The ambitious project has had to deal with writings in seven languages, contained in some 200,000 written and printed pages.In 1985 it was reorganized and included in a joint program of German federal and state ("Länder") academies.