[INDOLOGY] Passing Away of Prof. Dr. Chlodwig Werba!

[Jan E.M. Houben]

found the following list online on the university website without
indication that he passed away...
https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/persons/chlodwig-h-werba(88283a73-c246-4c13-9668-78e1acc6677e)/publications.html

On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 16:34, Jan E.M. Houben <jemhouben at gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear Dr. Chakrabarti,
> I am very sad to be informed about the premature passing away of Prof.
> Chlodwig Werba, author of numerous articles in the domain of Vedic
> (including on "prakritic wordforms in the Rgvedasamhita)
> and Indo-european studies and especially of "Werba's Verba Indoiranica,
> Part I".
> He used to sanskritize his name as Śruta-vega and write brief sentences in
> Sanskrit -- for instance the dedication in the copy of his Verba
> Indoiranica which he sent me in 1997/98 -- long before courses in spoken
> and functional Sanskrit became fashionable.
> Is there anywhere a list of his publications available online?
> Condolences to his family, colleagues, friends and students.
> Jan Houben
> *** *** ***
> on p. ix of his Verba Indoiranica Chlodwig Werba quotes (I intentionally
> use the present tense here)
> a stanza in the Kathāmukha of the Pañcatantra
>
> anantapāraṁ kila śabdaśāstraṁ
>    svalpaṁ tathāyur bahavaś ca vighnāḥ /
> sāraṁ tato grāhyam apāsya phalgu
>    haṁsair yathā kṣīram ivāmbumadhyāt //
>
> For this he gives a liberal and metrical translation into English:
>
> Since verbal science has no final end ;
>    since life is short, and obstacles impend,
> let central facts be picked and firmly fixed,
>    as swans extract the milk with water mixed !
> *** *** ***
>
>
>
> On Tue, 29 Jan 2019 at 08:29, Dr. Debabrata Chakrabarti via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
>> I am sorry to inform the learned circle that my friend Prof. Dr. Chlodwig
>> Werba of the South Asian Institute of Indoloy & Tibetan Studies in Vienna
>> has died a premature death on 25 January 2019. We miss not only an
>> outstanding scholar of Indology, but a man of intense feeling and a heart
>> full of humour. May he attain Sadgati.
>> Photo Courtesy: Edgar Leitan
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>> ???This body is like a musical instrument; what you hear depends upon
>> how you play it.??? ??? Anandamayi Ma
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>> unbroken.??? - Paracelsus
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> --
>
> *Jan E.M. Houben*
>
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>
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