37.1575, All: Obituary: Remus Gergel (1974 – 2026)

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Subject: 37.1575, All: Obituary: Remus Gergel (1974 – 2026)

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Date: 26-Apr-2026
From: Ingo Reich [ingo.reich at uni-saarland.de]
Subject: Obituary: Remus Gergel (1974 – 2026)


It is with great sadness that we share the news that Remus Gergel
passed away completely unexpectedly on Sunday, 5 April 2026, at the
age of 51.
Since 2016, Remus Gergel was a full professor of English Linguistics
at the Department of English Studies at Saarland University,
Saarbrücken. He studied English, Mathematics, Spanish, and Latin at
the University of Tübingen and Louisiana State University. He received
his doctorate in Tübingen in 2005. After research visits in Bilbao and
at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, USA, he returned to
Tübingen, where he completed his habilitation in 2010. In 2012, he
accepted a position as professor at Graz University.
Remus Gergel was an outstanding formal semanticist and syntactician.
At the same time, he was an expert in the history of the English
language and knew how to combine these two fields in a way that few
others could. His perspective always extended far beyond English. He
loved languages and spoke many of them. Recently, he focused on the
diachronic development of presuppositions and developed an innovative
approach for investigating diachronic research questions using
experimental methods.
In Remus Gergel, we have lost not only an outstanding linguist, but
above all an incredibly kind, considerate, and loving person. He was
highly regarded by both students and colleagues. His sudden death has
left us deeply saddened. Our thoughts are with his family.

Linguistic Field(s): Historical Linguistics
                     Pragmatics
                     Psycholinguistics
                     Semantics
                     Syntax




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