Thank you for sharing the announcement, Prof. Houben.
As a colleague, collaborator and friend, I also wanted toacknowledge the
passing of Michel Angot. It took me a while to put pen to paperas Michel’s
departure was so sudden and unexpected – he taught and studieduntil the day
before his death. Standing one moment and gone the next. A memento mori for all
hisentourage and a clean, elegant departure for him. Surely what he would
havewished, but arguably tough for those who are left behind.
I attended quite a few of Michel’s courses on Sanskrit grammar andtexts over at
least 10 years and found them thought provoking, enlightening andextremely
informative. He was a through and through philologist and linguist, and a real
all-rounderudite scholar of both ‘Eastern’ and ‘Western’ history and thought
forms. Butmost of all he was a deep knower of Sanskrit grammar - an ocean into
which he swamenthusiastically and with ease - while he also conversed and
cross-linked easilywith many other domains of Sanskrit thought, poetry,
prosody, literature, philosophyand science. He was an eminent representative of
Brahminical-orientedapproaches to knowledge, and something of an intransigent
hard-liner about it, atrait which some of his colleagues and also some of his
students founddifficult to take at times.
I was privileged to collaborate with Michel in organising twolong residential
courses in 2022 (on the Yogasūtra) and in 2023 (on the thoughtof Nāgārjuna),
which as things turned out will represent a major part of hisperson-to-person
intellectual legacy, whereas his abundant written productionwill remain for all
to enjoy and learn from. He is survived by his wonderfulwife and life partner
Michelle and by his daughter.
Michel Angot’s site, recommended by Prof. Houben, has sincebeen taken down. I
imagine it will be updated and republished in some form at some point.Some very
out of date information on his work may be found here, and those whoknow French
may find this relatively recent interview of interest.
Elizabeth De Michelis(formerly Universities of Oxford and Cambridge)
On Saturday, 13 April 2024 at 01:07:09 CEST, Brendan Gillon via INDOLOGY
<[email protected]> wrote:
Dear Jan,
Thank you for taking the time to convey this sad news to us. I never met Prof.
Angot, but I was very glad to have discovered his excellent and encyclopedic
book, Le sanscrit commentarial, shortly after it appeared. I am very sorry to
hear of his passing.
Cordially yours,
Brendan
On 4/12/24 06:36, Jan E.M. Houben via INDOLOGY wrote:
Dear All,
I just received information that the French Sanskrit and Vedic scholar Michel
Angot passed away in his home town on 8 April 2024 at the age of 75
(https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_Angot). A number of his important
publications are listed on his own website (https://www.michelangot.com/),
which also mentions several other ones still under preparation. Condolences to
his family and to his numerous students in France and world wide, who will
always remember him for his enthusiastic and inspiring teaching and lecturing,
including in the domain of theoretical and practical aspects of Vedic
recitation.
Jan Houben --
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
https://ephe-sorbonne.academia.edu/JanEMHouben
https://www.classicalindia.info
LabEx Hastec -- L'Inde Classique augmentée: construction, transmission
et transformations d'un savoir scientifique
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