<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""></blockquote><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Begin forwarded message:<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">From: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Wolfgang Behr <<a href="mailto:wolfgang.behr@aoi.uzh.ch" class="">wolfgang.behr@aoi.uzh.ch</a>></span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Subject: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Sergey Evgenyevich Yakhontov, R.i.p.!</b></span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Date: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">29 January 2018 at 9:17:28 PM SGT</span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Cc: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;">Olga Zavyalova <<a href="mailto:olgazavyalova@yahoo.com" class="">olgazavyalova@yahoo.com</a>></span><br class=""><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b class="">Reply-To: </b></span><span class="" style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, "Helvetica Neue", Helvetica, sans-serif;"><<a href="mailto:wolfgang.behr@aoi.uzh.ch" class="">wolfgang.behr@aoi.uzh.ch</a>></span><br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Dear colleagues and friends,<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>I just received the very sad news from Professor Olga Zavyalova in<br class="">Moscow that Sergey Evgenyevich Yakhontov passed away during the night<br class="">of January 27/28 at the age of 91. Земля тебе пухом!<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>As all of you know, Sergey Evgenyevich was a giant in Old Chinese<br class="">reconstruction, comparative Sino-Tibetan and many other areas of East<br class="">Asian historical linguistics, whose work has deeply influenced several<br class="">generations of scholars in the Soviet Union/Russia and abroad. The<br class="">collected works cum Festschrift produced by Professor Zavyalova and<br class="">colleagues on the occasion of his 90th birthday on December 13, 2016,<br class="">contains a photograph, sketches of his academic life and a complete<br class="">bibliography up to 2009. I am attaching the relevant pages.<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>Wishing all of you well,<br class="">WB/畢鶚<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font>_______________________________________________________________________<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font> W o l f g a n g B e h r (畢鶚)<br class=""> <br class=""> Traditional China Chair, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, UZH<br class=""> Zürichbergstr. 4, CH-8032 Zürich, Switzerland; phone: +41-44-63-43180<br class=""> <br class=""> <a href="http://www.aoi.uzh.ch/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html" class="">www.aoi.uzh.ch/sinologie/persons/professoren/behr.html</a><br class=""> <a href="http://uzh.academia.edu/WolfgangBehr" class="">uzh.academia.edu/WolfgangBehr</a><br class=""> twitter: @behrwolf<br class="">_______________________________________________________________________<br class=""><font color="#5856d6" class=""><br class=""></font></div></body></html>