sad new: Frits Staal

[Brendan Gillon]

Dear colleagues,

This is indeed sad news.  His contributions to the study of logic and of 
language in classical India were enormous.

Brendan Gillon



On 12-02-19 11:12 AM, Michio Yano wrote:
> Dear Michael and All,
>
> I cannot believe this sad news.  He invited me to his lecture
> at the occasion of the Agnicayana last April.  Without his invitation
> I should have hesitated to go to Panjal.
> I was one of his long time friends since I attended his lectures
> in Kyoto University in  late 1960s. I visited him at his home
> in Berkeley in 1986.
> I wanted to visit him at his home in Thailand, but it is now too late!
>
>
> Michio Yano
> Kyoto Sangyo University
> Kamigamo, Kita-ku, Kyoto, 603-8555 Japan
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>> Dear All,
>>
>> I just received the sad news that my old friend, the famous Indologist
> Frits Staal, has passed away peacefully, today Sunday 2/19/12, at his
> home in Chiangmai, Thailand.
>> His niece, Karin Staal, is visiting him from Holland and reported the
> sad news to us. He will be missed by many. Luckily, some of us saw him
> last at the great Atiratra Agnicayana at Panjal in Kerala, April 2011,
> which he first recorded in 1975 and published in 1983 ("Agni").
>> Michael
>>
>>
>>
>>> ============
>>> Michael Witzel
>>> witzel at fas.harvard.edu
>>> <www.fas.harvard.edu/~witzel/mwpage.htm>
>>> Wales Prof. of Sanskrit&
>>> Director of Graduate Studies,
>>> Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
>>> 1 Bow Street,
>>> Cambridge MA 02138, USA
>>>
>>> phone: 1- 617 - 495 3295, 496 8570, fax 617 - 496 8571;
>>> my direct line:  617- 496 2990
>>
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