Sad news ...



On 13/01/2022, 10:35, "[log in to unmask] on behalf of Anke de Looper" <[log in to unmask] on behalf of [log in to unmask]> wrote:



    Staff and management of John Benjamins Publishing Company were greatly

    saddened by the news that E.F.K. Koerner passed away on January 6th.



    It was a meeting between (Ernst Frideryk) Konrad Koerner and John Benjamins

    that ultimately led to John Benjamins Publishing Company having a strong focus

    on linguistics and the language sciences. The cooperation started in 1973 with

    the founding of the journal 'Historiographia Linguistica', the first volume of

    which appeared in 1974 and which is still going strong. The history of the

    language sciences was the subject closest to Konrad Koerner's heart and he

    edited the journal himself until about a year ago.

    The journal was followed in the early '70s by the "Amsterdam Studies in the

    Theory and History of Linguistic Science", an umbrella covering five book

    series: "Amsterdam Classics in Linguistics, 1800-1925", "Classics in

    Psycholinguistics", "Library & Information Sources in Linguistics", "Current

    Issues in Linguistic Theory" (CILT), and "Studies in the History of the

    Language Sciences" (SiHoLS). The latter two of these series continue to be

    active publishing monographs and edited volumes to this day. The editorship of

    CILT was handed over some years ago already, but the hand-over of the

    editorship of SiHoLS had only very recently been completed.

    In 1988 Benjamins also became the publisher of the journal 'Diachronica',

    which Konrad Koerner had founded with Philip H. Baldi and Allan R. Bomhard

    four years earlier, at Georg Olms Verlag, and which he edited until 2001.

    Although over the years the editorship of these journals and book series was

    handed to new editors, Konrad Koerner never ceased to take an interest in

    them.



    With the founding and editing of these journals and series, the contribution

    of Konrad Koerner to the field of linguistics, and especially the history of

    the language sciences, cannot be overstated. In addition, of course, he has

    contributed considerably with his own work, published in many articles and

    monographs over the years, up to his "Last Papers in Linguistic

    Historiography" in 2020.



    We are sad, but comforted by the knowledge that we, and many others elsewhere,

    may keep this impressive legacy and build on it.





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