Fanny de Sivers in memoriam

[Johanna Laakso]

Dear URA-LISTers,

sad news from yesterday's "Postimees"  ( http://www.postimees.ee/478788/prantsusmaal-suri-esseist-fanny-de-sivers/ ): Fanny de Sivers, expatriate Estonian linguist, essayist and philosopher, passed away yesterday, at the age of almost 91 years.

Fanny de Sivers (née Isak) was born in Pärnu in 1920. She started her studies before the war at the university of Tartu, continued in Breslau (Wroclaw), Würzburg and Paris, and wrote her Licentiate's thesis on general phonetics and Finno-Ugric languages at the university of Lund. She published many studies on Finnic languages, general linguistics, translation theory and ethnolinguistics, and gave numerous guest lectures (among other things, she returned to the University of Tartu as a visiting professor in 1993-95). Non-linguists know her as an essayist who wrote about various aspects of culture and philosophy with devotion and esprit.

With condolences to her colleagues, friends and all who learnt to know and respect her wit, sense of humor and truly European esprit

JL

--
Univ.Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso
Universität Wien, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)
Abteilung Finno-Ugristik
Campus AAKH Spitalgasse 2-4 Hof 7
A-1090 Wien
johanna.laakso at univie.ac.at • http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/
Project ELDIA: http://www.eldia-project.org/ 





--
ura-list at helsinki.fi - list for Uralic linguistics and related disciplines
to (un)subscribe, send majordomo at helsinki.fi a message:
(un)subscribe ura-list my.own at email.address
Mirror archive: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/archives/ura-list.html