[INDOLOGY] Marianne Oort (1935-2026)

[Jan E.M. Houben]

On 26 February Dr Marianne Oort passed away one week and a few days before
her 91st birthday. Many may know her as a very regular participant at
Indological events  such as the meetings of the American Oriental Society
and World Sanskrit Conferences. She was one of the last living students of
Prof. F.B.J. Kuiper at Leiden University and among the earliest generations
of student-members of the Indological study association at Leiden
University which  since Kuiper's time carries the name "Hertjes". Witzel
explained this name in his obituary of F.B.J. Kuiper as follows (IIJ 47, p.
175):
   Kuiper was well liked by his many students who called themselves, after a
   Classical verse, the Hertjes (‘deer’, *mṛgāḥ*) wishing to be protected
from the
    lion of Sanskrit grammar by Kuiper as their Guru (*vyākaraṇasiṁhabhītā*
*    apaśabdamṛgāḥ kva vicareyuḥ* ?).
Otherwise she was also widely known for almost two decades (1978-1997) as
the very helpful assistant librarian of the Kern Institute Indological
Library -- into which the Indological Library of the Institute of Oriental
Languages (founded by J. Gonda) of Utrecht University had been integrated
in 1992, and which is now, since ca. 2003, integrated into the general
Library of Leiden University.
In addition, she was for many years an active participant in the reading
group on the Paippalaada-Samhita organized by Alexander Lubotsky at Leiden
University.
See further:
https://www.dutchstudies-satsea.nl/deelnemers/oort-marianne-stazie-lissy/
Condolences to her family and friends.

J.H.

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*Jan E.M. Houben*

Directeur d'Études, Professor of South Asian History and Philology

*Sources et histoire de la tradition sanskrite*

École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE, Paris Sciences et Lettres)

*Sciences historiques et philologiques *

Groupe de recherches en études indiennes (EA 2120)

*johannes.houben [at] ephe.psl.eu <johannes.houben at ephe.psl.eu>*

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