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Siegling Postcard 6

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"Siegling Postcard 6". In A Comprehensive Edition of Tocharian Manuscripts (CEToM). Created and maintained by Melanie Malzahn, Martin Braun, Hannes A. Fellner, and Bernhard Koller. https://cetom.univie.ac.at/?sgl_postcard_6 (accessed 27 Apr. 2025).

Type

postcard

Script

handwritten

Author

Emil Sieg

Recipient

Wilhelm Siegling

Place

Kiel

Date

1914-06-30

Summary

The postcard contains various remarks on Tocharian A text passages, as well as Sieg's discovery that reduplication can function as a marker of causativity. Sieg further reports that he is rejecting a request from the University of Kiel to serve as dean before the predetermined date of his appointment (1914-06-24). Finally, he complains that has has not yet been invited to contribute to the festschrift for Ernst Windisch (the published volume contains no contribution of Sieg's).

Remarks

Images

Images provided by Prof. Dr. Thomas Oberlies and Pratik Rumde from the Seminar für Indologie und Tibetologie of the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen.

Transcription

Index

Bibliography

Anonymous 1914

Anonymous. 1914. Festschrift Ernst Windisch zum siebzigsten Geburtstag am 4. September 1914 dargebracht von Freunden und Schülern. Leipzig: Harrassowitz.