[INDOLOGY] Death of Luise Anna Hercus (nee Schwarzschild) (1926-2018)

[Andrew Ollett]

Thanks, Royce, for this news. Her work on Middle Indic is truly exemplary:
focused, rich in linguistic insight, and based on a wide and careful
reading of texts. I had no idea, though I am not surprised, that she also
made similarly profound contributions to the study of Australian languages.
māṇaṇijjaṁ cea jīaṁ.

2018-05-11 4:59 GMT-05:00 Royce Wiles via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info>:

> Dear colleagues
>
> I have today attended the very well-attended ceremony to mark the passing
> away of Luise Anna Schwarzschild (LA Hercus) a few weeks ago—Luise's
> exemplary and important work on the grammar of Middle Indo-Aryan dialects
> spanned many decades until the mid- to late-1970s. Luise was a mainstay of
> the teaching of Sanskrit and Prakrits at the Australian National University
> (ANU) in Canberra for many decades; her quirky, engrossing and inspiring
> classes will be remembered by any who had the good fortune to sit in on
> them.
>
> From the early 1960s onwards her research focus included an incredible
> amount ‘salvage-linguisitcs’ focused on the vanishing Aboriginal languages
> of Australia; she made many pioneering and exceptionally important
> contributions to both the recording of vestigal and threatened languages
> (including many hundreds of hours of reel-to-reel tapes done under
> difficult circumstances in remote desert and outback locations)—she
> published numerous grammars and translations (for more details the
> Wikipedia entry is helpful).
>
> An obituary has been published in the Australian newspaper
> https://www.theaustralian.com.au/national-affairs/
> indigenous/obituary-dr-luise-anna-hercus-ao/news-story/
> 3fca363b4d9cbcb8f26932a9de00f1d6
>
> Regards
>
> Royce WILES
>
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