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Dear colleagues I'm sorry to give you the sad news that Fritz Hans Schweingruber has left us after a long disease. Thanks to his priceless contribution in wood anatomy, dendrochronology and anthracology he will be forever remembered in our community. All the best Girolamo Fiorentino Begin forwarded message: *From: *<[log in to unmask]> *Subject: **[ITRDBFOR] Decease of Fritz Schweingruber* *Date: *11 January 2020 at 19:27:13 CET *To: *[log in to unmask] Dear colleagues, dear friends, dear members of the Dendro community, On behalf of Elisabeth Schweingruber and with great sadness we regret to inform you that her beloved husband Fritz Hans Schweingruber passed away in the presence of his family on January 7th, 2020 in Birmensdorf, Switzerland. We all mourn the passing of a true giant in tree-ring science. Fritz was the founder of the WSL Dendrosciences group in the early 70ies, a pioneer and worldwide outstanding tree-ring researcher in and wood anatomist, and an enthusiastic teacher and supervisor. Although retired since nearly twenty years, he stayed active in research until the very last day. His decease is a great loss for our group and research community, many of us lost a former supervisor, mentor, colleague and friend. His immense contributions to the field will long live after him. We would like to express our sorrow and deepest condolences to his family. WSL Dendrosciences group -- Prof. Girolamo Fiorentino Laboratory of Archaeobotany and Palaeoecology Department of Cultural Heritage University of Salento Via D. Birago, 64 73100 Lecce - Italy ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the ARCHAEOBOTANY list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=ARCHAEOBOTANY&A=1