[Ura-list] Gert Sauer in memoriam

[Johanna Laakso]

Dear URA-LIST Community,

from Sirkka Saarinen I just received the sad news that Gert Sauer has passed away on December 15, at the age of 89 years.

Born in Frankfurt an der Oder in 1932, Gert Sauer began his studies in Berlin in 1952 and, following the footsteps of his teacher Wolfgang Steinitz, became an acknowledged expert of Khanty and the keeper of the traditions of German "Ostjakologie" in Berlin. After Steinitz’s death, he supervised the editing and publication of the remaining, posthumous parts of Steinitz's great Khanty dictionary (DEWOS) and, alongside his research at the Academy of Sciences, taught generations of university students from the 1960s until his retirement in 1996. Now, one of the last great representatives of the German Ob-Ugristic research tradition and community is gone.

With condolences to all his colleagues and friends, his academic “children” and “grandchildren”,

jl
 
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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/ 







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