Professor Alf Grannes in memoriam

[Kjetil Ra Hauge]

Alf Grannes, Professor of Russian at Bergen University, passed quietly away
on 2 April. Apart from his work on Russian and Polish, some of which was
collected in his Izbrannye trudy po russkomu i slavjanskomu jazykoznaniju,
Moscow 1998, he was also known for his studies on Turkisms in Bulgarian
(Turco-Bulgarica : articles in English and French concerning Turkish
influence on Bulgarian, Wiesbaden 1996); and the Nordic audience knew him
as an authority on matters of nationality and nationhood in the Soviet
Union and its successor states. He had been suffering for a few years from
a disease that gradually paralysed his muscular functions, but he still
managed to carry on his research with the means at his disposal. He is
survived by his wife and his son.

--- Kjetil Ra Hauge, U. of Oslo.
--- Tel. +47/22 85 67 10, fax +47/22 85 41 40

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