Simon Karlinsky

[Christopher R. Putney]

Dear SEELANGS colleagues,

Berkeley colleagues have asked me to post the following sad 
announcement to the list:

Our friend and colleague Simon Karlinsky died peacefully at home on 
July 5, 2009, at the age of 84.  A distinguished professor of Slavic 
Languages and Literatures, he taught at Berkeley for over thirty years. 
  It is difficult to imagine the contemporary study of early Russian 
drama, Gogol', Chekhov, Tchaikovsky, Diaghilev, Stravinsky, Nabokov, 
Tsvetaeva, and the Russian emigration in general without Simon's 
pioneering efforts.

He is survived by his husband, Peter Carleton.  Interment will be private.



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Christopher R. Putney
Chair
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
CB# 3165, 425 Dey Hall
Chapel Hill, NC  27599-3165

Phone:  919/962-7548
Fax:  919/962-2278

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