[meteorite-list] Christian Anger + Gero Kurat (1938-2009)

From: Jerry Flaherty <grf2_at_meteoritecentral.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:51:22 -0500
Message-ID: <D2FB399F7481462B9586F2FC9AFBAB19_at_ASUS>

Oh, please disregard my previous post. I began reading emails from the most
recent.
I too am deeply saddened by this news. Christian's contributions to the List
were always appreciated.

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From: "J?rn Koblitz" <koblitz at microfab.de>
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2010 7:20 AM
To: <meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com>
Subject: [meteorite-list] Christian Anger + Gero Kurat (1938-2009)

> I am deeply saddened to learn about the death of Christian, a fellow
> collector and friend for so many many years.
>
> Sadly, this is not the only terrible news from Austria, recently:
>
> Prof. Gero Kurat, the former curator of the meteorite collection at the
> Natural History Museum in Vienna, Austria, and past president of the
> Meteoritical Society died on November 27, 2009, at the age of only 71.
>
> http://www.meteoriticalsociety.org/news_display.cfm?code=news_intro&itemID=51&CFID=3978395&CFTOKEN=27350152
>
> http://solarsystem.wustl.edu/2009/12/01/gerot-kurat/
>
> Both great individuals will truly be missed! My sincere condolences to his
> families and friends.
>
> Joern Koblitz
>
>
>> -----Urspr?ngliche Nachricht-----
>> Von: meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com
>> [mailto:meteorite-list-bounces at meteoritecentral.com]Im Auftrag von
>> impactika at aol.com
>> Gesendet: Mittwoch, 13. Januar 2010 23:57
>> An: meteorite-list at meteoritecentral.com
>> Cc: h63strufe at aol.com
>> Betreff: [meteorite-list] Christian Anger
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>> I just received this email (below) from Hanno, with very sad news.
>> For all of you who did not know Christian Anger, he was an
>> expert meteorite
>> collector and a very friendly guy. In his real life he was an
>> Engineer, and
>> lived near Vienna, Austria. He leaves behind an (ex)wife and
>> two little
>> girls.
>> And I still remember when we were waltzing together in
>> Ensisheim, in much
>> happier times.
>>
>> Anne M. Black
>> _http://www.impactika.com/_ (http://www.impactika.com/)
>> _IMPACTIKA at aol.com_ (mailto:IMPACTIKA at aol.com)
>> Vice-President, I.M.C.A. Inc.
>> _http://www.imca.cc/_ (http://www.imca.cc/)
>>
>> Hello Anne,
>>
>> today I received an email from Harald Stehlik, that our good friend
>> Christian Anger had on 14.dec 2009 a very heavy car accident
>> and he died.
>>
>> I am very shocked and sad, because Christian was not only a
>> collector but a
>> friend.
>> Everybody know how much fun we had when we were togheter.
>> We had also other private contact and were real friends.
>>
>> At first he told me that he cannot come to the Munich show,
>> because he had
>> so many private problems in his mind.
>> Then he called me thursday evening when I was in Munich that
>> he decided to
>> come. So he was with us friday evening at the Fliegerbr?u and
>> stayed in
>> Munich till sunday afternoon. He helped me to bring some of
>> my material back
>> into the car sunday afternoon.
>> This was the last time I saw him.
>>
>> True friendship never ends..............
>>
>> Hanno Strufe
>>
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