[INDOLOGY] Boris Ogubenine (1940-2025)

[Nataliya Yanchevskaya]

Dear Colleagues,

It is with deep sadness that I write to tell you that our colleague and
friend *Boris Oguibenine* passed away in Strasbourg on November 12th—just
days after celebrating his 85th birthday on November 6th.

Boris was a scholar of extraordinary range and depth. His work spanned
Vedic, Classical, and Buddhist Sanskrit, Indo-European mythology,
etymology, and linguistics. His life was as remarkable as his
scholarship—shaped by immigration, his participation in the Russian
structuralist movement, political dissent, personal courage, and unwavering
loyalty to his friends.

Boris was a professor emeritus and former chair of South Asian studies at
the University of Strasbourg. He was also a founding member, Director, and
Secretary General of the International Association for Comparative
Mythology.

Most recently, he was working on the Index of Mythological Motifs of the
Ṛgveda, which we were hoping to publish next year.

He will be profoundly missed.

The funeral will be held in Strasbourg (Centre Funéraire, 15 Rue de L'Ill
67000, Strasbourg Robertsau) on Tuesday, November 25th at 14:30 (2:30 pm).
If you would like to attend, please let me know and I'll send you more
details. Also, please get in touch if you'd like me to read your name
during the service as a tribute to him.

If anyone from EHESS is reading this, please help spread the word through
your center. Boris was a long-standing member of EHESS, and perhaps someone
there would like to attend his funeral.

With warm regards,

Nataliya

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Nataliya Yanchevskaya, Ph.D.
PIIRS, Princeton University
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