[Lingtyp] Hans-Jörg Bibiko (1967-2024)

[Martin Haspelmath]

With great sadness, we must announce that our dear colleague, the 
computational linguist Hans-Jörg Bibiko (1967-2024), has passed away 
unexpectedly. He had been working at the Max Planck Institute for 
Evolutionary Anthropology since 2003 and played a key role in the 
technical implementation of the /World Atlas of Language Structures/ 
(WALS). He is well known among many typologists as the creator of the 
"Interactive Reference Tool" on CD-ROM, which was widely used for a long 
time, even after the online version of WALS was published 
(https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/research/tool.php).

Hans-Jörg Bibiko was a wonderful colleague, who also collaborated with 
linguists such as Michael Cysouw, Jeff Good, Paul Heggarty, Frank 
Seifart, Susanne Maria Michaelis, and Russell Gray 
(https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=p5r_8eEAAAAJ&hl=de&oi=sra). 
In addition to his work on typological databases, he had a particular 
interest in Japanese and Russian lexicography (https://www.bibiko.de/).

We will miss him dearly.

Martin Haspelmath and colleagues (DLCE, MPI-EVA Leipzig)

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Martin Haspelmath
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
D-04103 Leipzig
https://www.eva.mpg.de/linguistic-and-cultural-evolution/staff/martin-haspelmath/
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