Le 25 mars 2020 à 20:43, Witzel, Michael via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> a écrit :

Echoing the sentiments of many on this (and other lists):  

Nick was a good man and a great friend. Since the early nineties he participated in our Round Tables, and then in the meetings of our Association for Comparative Mythology (<compmyth.org>), for many years.

I particularly liked his comment (about my myth book) criticizing me that I had quoted him too many times!

We will now publish his presumably last paper, as per his last wishes,  in our myth journal, CM:  

<https://compmyth.org/journal/index.php/cm>

RIP !

Michael

On Mar 24, 2020, at 5:51 PM, Geoffrey Samuel via INDOLOGY <INDOLOGY@list.indology.info> wrote:

I will miss Nick greatly too. I have known him for many years, and he was a good friend. I last saw him late last year in Oxford.

I entirely agree with the very positive comments people have been making. He was a warm, supportive and wise man, and I learned a lot from him.

Geoffrey

On 25 Mar 2020, at 08:42, Greg Bailey via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info> wrote:

Dear All,

Wonderful man. He came to a number of our conferences held in Dubrovnik on the epics and Purāṇas, and made a great contribution.

Cheers,

Greg Bailey

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De: Steve Farmer via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>

Objet: Rép : [INDOLOGY] Nick Allen

Date: 24 mars 2020 à 21:35:45 UTC+1

À: Deven Patel via INDOLOGY <indology@list.indology.info>

Répondre à: Steve Farmer <saf@safarmer.com>

Nagaraj Paturi wrote:

Wanted to know more about this scholar [Nick Allen] so fondly remembered and found this list:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~njallen/complete_list.htm

And this:

nickallenbibliographypdf-0.pdf

Actually, on the last link: to get to the fullest bibliography of Nick’s works, go first here:

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~njallen/complete_list.htm (early works from 1971-2008)

which is then continued here (works from later 2008 - 2018): 

https://www.anthro.ox.ac.uk/files/nickallenbibliographypdf-0

Yes, Nick wrote a lot, and nearly right to the end.

Nick was a wonderful friend for the past 18 years or so. Besides his work as a Sanskritist and comparative anthropologist he was a regular participant in the Annual Conferences of the International Association for Comparative Mythology (IACM) — formally founded in 2007 in Edinburgh, but going back three years earlier, to comparative mythology conferences Michael Witzel initiated at Harvard, Kyoto, and Beijing in 2004, 2005, and 2006. 

Nick’s work in comparative mythology was most closely associated with his extension of Dumézil’s work in studies of Indo-European epic traditions, which Dumézil and Nick after him argued were all based on earlier proto-Indo-European myths.

Besides being one of Dumézil’s last and most articulate defenders, Nick was a warm and generous human being in every imaginable way. We argued good-naturedly for years about his defense of Dumézil, but it never affected the warmth of our relationship.

I posted a note on Nick's death a bit ago on the Indo-Eurasian Research List (IER), which he contributed to frequently after Michael Witzel and I founded it in December 2004.

Right now, as we are planning the upcoming 14th Conference of the International Association of Comparative Mythology — whose exact dates in part await the final judgment of the SARS-CoV-2 virus -- Nick's presence is deeply missed by everyone on the IACM Board.

Steve Farmer, PhD

The Systems Biology Group

Palo Alto, California