<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="overflow-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;"><div>Dear URA-LIST Community,</div><div><br></div><div>very sad news just came in: Raija Bartens, née Jokinen, retired professor of Finno-Ugric studies at the University of Helsinki, has passed away peacefully in Göttingen, where she lived since her retirement. Quoting the FB posting of the "Finnisch-Ugrisches Seminar":</div><div><br></div><div><blockquote type="cite"><div>Wir trauern um Raija Bartens. Raija Bartens war eine herausragende Sprachwissenschaftlerin und prägte die Finnougristik entscheidend. Sie beschäftigte sich mit der Kasuslehre des Samischen und der Verbgrammatik weiterer finnisch-ugrischen Sprachen, später wandte sie sich der Folkloristik zu und übersetzte zahlreiche Werke aus kleineren finnisch-ugrischen Sprachen ins Finnische. Sie veröffentlichte Handbücher zur Struktur und Sprachgeschichte der mordwinischen und permischen Sprachen, die als Standardwerke gelten.</div><div>Wir verabschieden uns von einer Kollegin, die für uns ein Vorbild war. In dieser traurigen Zeit gilt unser tiefes Mitgefühl ihrem Mann Hans-Hermann Bartens und ihrer Familie.</div></blockquote></div><div><br></div><div>Raija Bartens was my teacher and mentor at the University of Helsinki, a wonderful person, who never enjoyed showing off her incredibly wide and deep knowledge of numerous Finno-Ugric languages and their historical background – but impressed everybody who had the opportunity to learn from her. She was a true role model.</div><div><br></div><div>My warmest condolences to her family, her friends and colleagues and all her previous students in whose thoughts now sorrow is mixed with gratitude. </div><div><br></div><div>jl</div><div><br></div><div>
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