[INDOLOGY] Marianne Oort (1935-2026)

[Joanna Jurewicz]

Oh, what sad news! My condolences to Her family and friends.

Joanna


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Katedra Azji Południowej /Chair of South Asia Studies

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sob., 14 mar 2026 o 03:52 Hock, Hans Henrich via INDOLOGY <
indology at list.indology.info> napisał(a):

> Another sad loss! My condolences to her family and so many friends,
>
> Hans Henrich Hock
>
> On Mar 12, 2026, at 19:30, Jan E.M. Houben via INDOLOGY <
> indology at list.indology.info> wrote:
>
> 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/
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> Condolences to her family and friends.
>
> J.H.
>
> --
> *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 *
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