An amazing achievement by Dr. Grunendahl, a digitized cross section of the sanskrit literature and more , etexts in pali, prakrit, southern languages etc. Rest in peace. Harry Spier
On Fri, Jul 12, 2024, 7:30 AM x kiepue via INDOLOGY < [email protected]> wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ > INDOLOGY mailing list > [email protected] > https://list.indology.info/mailman/listinfo/indology >
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