Marianne Stazie Lissy Oort
Curriculum vitae
| 1935 | born on March 7 |
| 1948-1952 | J. Sterling Morton High School, Cicero, Illinois, USA |
| 1952-1954 | University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA |
| 1955-1964 | candidaats = Bachelor English Language and Literature, University of Leiden |
| 1967-1988 | doctoraal = Masters Indo-Iranian languages, University of Leiden |
| 1978-1997 | assistant librarian, Kern Institute Library, University of Leiden |
Special activities and positions
- Currently doing research on Chapter 8 of the Paippalāda Sam̥hitā of the Atharvaveda
- Friends of the Kern Institute, past treasurer
- The Netherlands-India Association, past treasurer, secretary, currently president
- Member of the American Oriental Society
- Member of the International Association of Sanskrit Scholars
- Sponsor The Leiden Summer School of Language and Linguistics
- Sponsor Kattaikuttu Gurukulam, Kanchipuram, India
Publications
1992 & A.W. van den Hoek, D.H.A. Kolff (eds), Ritual, state and history in South Asia: essays in honour of J.C. Heesterman, Leiden (Memoirs of the Kern Institute 5).
– “Variations on the theme of Ṛgveda X.95.” In: A.W. van den Hoek, D.H.A. Kolff, and M.S. Oort (eds), Ritual, state and history in South Asia: essays in honour of J.C. Heesterman, Leiden (Memoirs of the Kern Institute 5), pp. 259-274.
1995 “Surā and other spirits in ritual and non-ritual context.” In: N.V. Gurov and Ja.V. Vasilkov (eds), Stchapakašraddcha: sbornik statej pamjati G.A. Zografa = Sthāpakašrāddham: professor G. A. Zograph commemorative volume, St. Petersburg, pp. 221-231.
1997 & A. Lubotsky and M. Witzel (eds), F.B.J. Kuiper, Selected writings on Indian linguistics and philology, Amsterdam-Atlanta (Kern Institute miscellanea 2).
2002 “Surā in the Paippalāda Sam̥hitā of the Atharvaveda.” JAOS 132: 355-360.
Forthcoming
– “Imagery of power and healing sound in the Paippalāda Sam̥hitā of the Atharvaveda.” In: Proceedings of the 5th International Symposium The Book, Romania, Europe September 2012.