[INDOLOGY] Calvert Watkins (13 March 1933 - 21 March 2013)

[Michael Witzel]

Dear all, 

I echo the sentiments of our colleagues: the passing of Cal Watkins, my long time colleague at Harvard and a good friend, is a major loss to all of us. Much of his work deals with Vedic language and philology as well as with Indo-European mythology ("How to kill a dragon"). He has inspired all of us with his insights. A very good man, he will be missed very much.  

Michael

> On 3/23/13 8:35 AM, asko.parpola at helsinki.fi wrote:
>> 
>> Dear Colleagues,
>> 
>> I have received from Craig Melchert the sad news that Calvert Watkins 
>> passed away in sleep on the 21st of March 2013 at home in Los Angeles.
>> 
>> We have lost a scholar of giant achievements in Indo-European studies 
>> and a gentle human being. Calvert Watkins took his Ph.D. in 
>> linguistics in 1959 at Harvard University, where he was long Professor 
>> of Indo-European Studies. In the following short bibliography I list 
>> his principal works and the 65th birthday Festschrift published by his 
>> students.
>> 
>> With regards, Asko Parpola
>> 
>> Watkins, Calvert 1969. Indogermanische Grammatik, III: Formenlehre, 1: 
>> Geschichte der indogermanischen Verbalflexion. Heidelberg: Carl Winter 
>> Universitätsverlag. 248 pp.
>> 
>> Watkins, Calvert 1985. The American Heritage dictionary of 
>> Indo-European roots. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company.
>> 2nd edition, revised and edited, 2000. xli, 149 pp.
>> 
>> Watkins, Calvert (ed.) 1987. Studies in memory of Warren Cowgill 
>> (1929-1985). Papers from the fourth East Coast Indo-European 
>> conference, Cornell University, June 6-9, 1985. (Untersuchungen zur 
>> indogermanischen Sprach- und Kulturwissensdchaft, 3.) Berlin: Walter 
>> de Gruyter.
>> 
>> Watkins, Calvert 1994. Selected writings, edited by Lisi Oliver. Vol. 
>> I-II. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft, 80.) Innsbruck. 
>> 772 pp.
>> 
>> Watkins, Calvert 1995. How to kill a dragon: Aspects of Indo-European 
>> poetics. New York: Oxford University Press. xiii, 613 pp.
>> 
>> Watkins, Calvert 2008. Selected writings, edited by Lisi Oliver. Vol. 
>> III: Publications 1992-2008. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur 
>> Sprachwissenschaft, 129.) Innsbruck. xi, 324 pp.
>> 
>> Jasanoff, Jay, H. Craig Melchert and Lisi Oliver (eds.) 1998. Mír 
>> curad: Studies in honor of Calvert Watkins. (Innsbrucker Beiträge zur 
>> Sprachwissenschaft, 92.) Innsbruck. xvii, 715 pp., 1 portrait.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> 
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> Dept. of South Asian Studies, Harvard University
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