[Ura-list] Tragedy in Prague

[Jeremy Bradley]

Dear all,

Those of you on social media will already be aware of this, but 
something that press coverage of yesterday's shooting at Charles 
University in Prague for wider audiences does not include: it largely 
took place around and at the Department of Finnish Studies and 
tragically, Jan Dlask, distinguished scholar, translator, and teacher of 
Finnish and esp. Finland-Swedish literature, lost his life. On the 
social media platform formerly known on Twitter, people are finding 
solace in the beautiful words of Z. Topelius's "Sparven om julmorgonen / 
Varpunen jouluaamuna" ... translated into Czech by Jan Dlask:

https://twitter.com/alinamatildan/status/1738266557011140673

There clearly are no words for such an unspeakable tragedy. All I can 
think of is to share the warmest possible thoughts with his family, 
friends, colleagues, and students, and with all those to whom other 
victims of this senseless brutality were near and dear.

Jeremy

-- 
Jeremy Bradley, Ph.D.
University of Vienna

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jeremy.moss.bradley at univie.ac.at

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