Weitere Bemerkungen zu Einigen Jenisejischen und Samojedischen Wortern [Extract from Orbis : Bulletin International de Documentation Linguistique, Vole XXIII, No. 1, 1974] by Menges, Karl H - 1974

10 pages uncut. Text in German. Inscribed by Megnes on inside page, "With kindest regards, Karl Menges 20 March 1975." From New York Times obituary, 25 Sept. 1999: "Karl H. Menges, an authority on the strategically important languages of Central Asian peoples in the former Soviet Union, died on Monday in Vienna. He was 91. Dr. Menges, who picked up new languages almost as casually as most people buy groceries, had been active conducting research at the University of Vienna until a few months before his death, his son, Constantine, said.... Dr. Menges taught for 36 years at Columbia University. ... Living in Germany in the early 1930's, Dr. Menges, who called himself a Catholic centrist, joined the anti-Nazi resistance, distributing literature, organizing meetings and speaking out in public forums. In 1936, he was arrested by the Gestapo, interrogated for five hours, charged with treason and temporarily released pending a trial. As he was leaving Gestapo headquarters, a friendly former fellow student who had joined the Gestapo told Dr. Menges secretly, ''If I were you, I wouldn't come back.'' Dr. Menges promptly made his escape over the Czech border. After part of Czechoslovakia was annexed by the Nazis, he fled to Turkey, where he continued to teach and pick up additional languages. He published 15 books and hundreds of articles. He retired from Columbia in 1976 and started a second teaching career at the University of Vienna."