Dear list members,

It is with great sadness that I must announce the passing away of our friend and colleague Reinhold Grünendahl on July 10, 2024.

I enclose a message written by Jens-Uwe Hartmann who is not on this list.

It is with great sadness that I have to inform you that another friend and colleague, Dr Reinhold Grünendahl, passed away after a serious illness. He initially specialised in the Mahābhārata and the associated viṣṇuit literature. As a result of his employment at the Nepal-German Manuscript Preservation Project and his subsequent work as the librarian for South Asia at the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek (SUB) in Göttingen, he increasingly focussed on recording Indian manuscripts and South Indian writings. Recognising the ever-growing need for digital availability of Sanskrit works, he used his position at the SUB to set up the “Göttingen Register of Electronic Texts in Indian Languages and related Indological materials from Central and Southeast Asia” (GRETIL) (http://gretil.sub.uni-goettingen.de/gretil.html). This database, which was constantly growing until Grünendahl’s retirement, still proves to be a first-rate digital resource that is constantly used, and it is extremely regrettable that the SUB is apparently not continuing to maintain the site. However, the worldwide dissemination of the texts available in GRETIL will ensure that its founder Reinhold Grünendahl will be remembered with greatest gratitude by all his colleagues in the field.

 

With kind regards,

Petra Kieffer-Pülz

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