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In memo y o Ki s in Casemi (bo n 6 May 1968, Liunebu g […] bo n 4 May 2026, Gö ingen) I'm no going o lie o you. Ins i u e o Li huanian Language E-mail add ess: [email p o ec ed] h ps: doi.o g/10.35321/all94-11 This is a lis o all he people who ha e been ea u ed on Doi.o g. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ D . Ki s in Casemi 's p ema u e dea h shocked he oncology communi y o mo e han one coun y, gi en he endless p oduc i i y, unpa alleled esea ch ac i i ies in he home coun y o Ge many. She had o be e e ywhe e and wi h all he esea che s o he coun y's su names, paying he mos a en ion, o cou se, o he su name o he na i e coun y and Eu ope in gene al. She was se iously ill a he ime and celeb a ed he 58 h bi hday. The scien is was a maximalis , he e we e no insu moun able hings o he . The dea h o an ea ly c ea o , inspi ed, buying ideas man shocked no only he colleagues, who wo ked on he 25-yea -old p ojec "Vie o a ds be ween he Rhine and he Elbe", p omo ed by he Gö ingen Academy o Sciences in Lowe Saxony. The Ge man Academy o Sciences suppo s long- e m p ojec s. In one o hem Hyd onymia Eu opaea, I had o wo k and w i e wo monog aphs o he au ho s o hese lines in he yea s 1995-2005. The p ojec was led by Wol gang P. Schmid himsel , who was elec ed a o eign membe o he Li huanian Academy o Sciences and an hono a y doc o o Vilnius Uni e si y. A close and espec ul ela ionship also bound him o K. Casemi , whose doc o al disse a ion was w i en a he semina on his o ical and compa a i e and gene al linguis ics, augh unde he long- ime head o he depa men , W. P. Schmid, o whom Ki s in esponded e y wa mly, wi h he al eady published disse a ion Wol enbü el in he dis ic s and Salzgi e in he ci y. In o de o ob ain a doc o a e, Ge many needed a second e iewe , P o esso Jü gen Udolph, who ne e i ed o discussing e en one oikonim o unce ain o igin. Ki s in became a p o esso in he do mi o y and a co-wo ke . He doc o al disse a ion was published in 2003 in a sepa a e olume in Biele eld, whe e he e is also a egional his o y publishing house. We can' boas o publishing houses like ha . The 2 scien is 's un imely dea h shocked he closes colleague, he au ho , he speake , he alen ed his o ian, he husband Uwe Ohinsky, who accompanied Ki s in h ough all s ages o li e and all oads, wo king oge he on all p ojec s, all o us who in e ac ed wi h he . The Vie namese had become he li e, he iden i y, o he scien is because hey spoke and said so much abou Ki s in's homeland, i s his o y, i s inhabi an s, i s na i e language. The scien is spoke a he second in e na ional con e ence o Alesand o Vanago Names in speech, his o y and sel -image held in Vilnius on Oc obe 24-26, 2007. Ki s ins epo was abou O sname und O snamengebe (li . Vie o a dis and place name gi e ), in which she emphasized he impo ance o eliable in o ma ion abou place names. She also pa icipa ed as an au ho in he p epa a ion o he book Namen und Appella i e de äl e en Sp achchich en (Names and appella ions o he lowe classes o he olde languages) ini ia ed by Ki s in. In a book published in Ge many in 2015, he a icle "Al p eußische Toponymie als Gegens and selbs s ändige Un e suchungen" (Old P ussian oponymy as an objec o independen esea ch) was published. Ki s en has a g ea sense o esponsibili y and she is always he e o suppo and encou age o he s. Du ing he s udies, she wo ked as an assis an , hen was in i ed o wo k in Jacob G imm's and Wilhelm G imm's Ge man dic iona y a he Gö ingen Academy o Sciences and was esponsible o he new e sion o he oldes dic iona y sec ion. In 2007, she s a ed wo king on he Academy's p ojec "Vie o a dze be ween he Rhine and he Elbe - Onomas ics in he Eu opean Space" (O snamen zwischen Rhein und Elbe - Onomas ik im eu opäischen Raum), he wo kplace was al eady in Müns e (Wes phalia). She became a manage and wo ked un il he dea h. Wi h his colleagues, K. Casemi published wo se ies o Wes phalian place names (Wes älisches O snamenbuch) and Lowe Saxon place names (Niede sächsisches O snamenbuch). She was a co-au ho o se e al olumes and w o e on issues o Lowe Ge man onomas ics. The au ho o hese lines was in i ed o Müns e o examine he p ojec . Good colleagues, people om he academy, did no in e e e wi h he wo k, bu e e y hing had o be done on ime. Ki s in was associa ed wi h se e al socie ies o linguis s, his o ians and his o ians, and collabo a ed in he publica ion o he jou nal "Bei äge zu Namen o schung" (La in o "Names Wo k"). In 2019, he wo k was ecognized by he p es igious Henning The Kau mann p ize. Ge man onomas ics has los a special man who didn' wo k on ancy one-day ideas, and i 's onomas ics ha will s ay when we' e gone. Ki s in Cesemi also ound ime o s uden s. He has been wo king a he Uni e si y o Gö ingen since 2002 and has augh unde g adua e s uden s a he Wes phalian Uni e si y o Müns e since 2007. Thei oo s eps a e deep, hey don' ha e ange o insis ence o p o e hei u h. Ki s in Casemi was a ee man who knew wha was impo an o he and he coun y.