[INDOLOGY] FW: [ctamil] Alexander Dubiansky (1941-2020)

[Joanna Jurewicz]

What a great loss! I cannot believe that! He was such a wonderful man, so
wise,  so profound, and so kind, with this unique Russian sense of humor. I
will miss him very much.

Joanna

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Prof. dr hab. Joanna Jurewicz

Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia Studies

Wydział Orientalistyczny / Faculty of Oriental Studies

Uniwersytet Warszawski /University of Warsaw

ul. Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28

00-927 Warszawa , Poland

Department of Linguistics and Modern Languages

College of Human Sciences

UNISA

Pretoria, RSA

Member of Academia Europaea

https://uw.academia.edu/JoannaJurewicz


śr., 18 lis 2020 o 15:45 Tieken, H.J.H. via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):

> Dear List members,
>
> I forward a message disseminated on the Classical Tamil list about
> Alexander Dubiansky, who has died this morning.
>
> I know he also had many friends among Sanskritists
>
> Herman
>
>
> Herman Tieken
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> ------------------------------
> *Van:* ctamil-request at services.cnrs.fr <ctamil-request at services.cnrs.fr>
> namens Nikolai Gordiychuk <jayankondar at gmail.com>
> *Verzonden:* woensdag 18 november 2020 10:22
> *Aan:* ctamil at services.cnrs.fr
> *Onderwerp:* Re: [ctamil] Alexander Dubiansky (1941-2020)
>
>
> Very sad news.
>
> Dr. Alexander Dubianski (27.04.1941-18.11.2020) passed away today after
> suffering from pneumonia caused by coronavirus.
>
> Colleagues, students and friends knew him as a very kind and generous
> person with great love for life, Tamil language and poetry.
>
> In youth Dr. Dubianski aspired to become a musician and studied at the
> Moscow Conservatoire, however, his education was interrupted by military
> service.  After returning from the army, he graduated and did his PhD at
> the Moscow State University, where he got interested in Indology and later
> taught Tamil language and literature for more than 40 years. He also taught
> at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
>
> He is most known for his book “Ritual and Mythological Sources of the
> Early Tamil Poetry” Groningen, 2000.
>
> During the last 12 years Dr.Dubianski was conducting an informal seminar
> on Classical Tamil literature, in which a circle of his former students
> participated.  His last unfinished work was full Russian translation of
> Naṟṟiṇai.
>
> On Wed, Nov 18, 2020 at 12:00 PM Jean-Luc Chevillard <
> jean-luc.chevillard at univ-paris-diderot.fr> wrote:
>
>> Dear CTamil list members,
>>
>> it is with great sadness that I have to announce that our dear colleague
>> and friend Alexander Dubiansky (b. 1941) died in Moscow this morning
>> because of Covid.
>>
>> We shall miss him very much.
>>
>> I include a picture taken in Paris on 28th september 2019 during the 4th
>> European Tamil conference. This was the last occasion for Eva and me to
>> meet with him face to face.
>>
>> -- Jean-Luc Chevillard (in Müssen)
>>
>> https://twitter.com/JLC1956
>>
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