Obituaries Australia

19 August, 1922
Budapest, Hungary

24 October, 2001 (aged 79)

• Austrian
• German
• Hungarian

Includes subject's nationality; their parents' nationality; the countries in which they spent a significant part of their childhood, and their self-identity.

• academic (1954-1957) New South Wales, Australia
• linguist (1954-1957) New South Wales, Australia
• academic (1957-1987) Australian Capital Territory, Australia
• linguist (1957-2001) Australian Capital Territory, Australia

• Stephen Wurm Graduate Prize (ANU) (eponym)

• Union Académique Internationale (member)
• Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia (fellow, 1967-2001)
• Australian Academy of the Humanities (fellow, 1977-2001)
• Australian Academy of the Humanities (president, 1986-1989)
• Union Académique Internationale (president, 1986-1989)
• International Council of Philosophy and Humanistic Studies (president, 1988-1997)
• International Council of Linguists (president, 1997-2001)

• University of Sydney (linguistics) (academic, 1954-1957)
• Australian National University (anthropology) (academic, 1957-1987)
• Australian National University (Research School of Pacific Studies) (academic, 1957-1987)
• Australian National University (anthropology) (emeritus professor, 1987-2001)