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Emil Sieg. Tocharologica: Selected writings on Tocharian. (Monographien zur Indischen Archäologie, Kunst und Philologie, Band 22.) Georges-Jean Pinault and Michaël Peyrot, Edd. Bremen, Ute Hempen Verlag, 2014.
In this work Georges-Jean Pinault and Michaël Peyrot have republished the Tocharian "scripta minora" of Emil Sieg, whether written by him alone (ten items) or written in conjunction with Wilhelm Siegling (four items) or with Friedrich W. K. Müller (one item). These articles cover almost fifty years of research (1908-1955) and for that period form a large window indeed to the history of Tocharian studies. Pinault and Peyrot's re-edition of these works is as carefully done as it is welcome. Since the very first article (one written in conjunction with Willhem Siegling) was "Tocharisch, die Sprache der Indoskythen" in which they gave these languages their name, 'Tocharian,' they may be said not only to have founded the discipline but named it as well. The name may have been assigned in error, opinion is still not fully decided on that issue, but the name has stuck. Other articles dealing with the issue of proper naming were: "Maitrisimit und 'Tocharisch'" (1916, with F. W. K. Müller), and his "Und dennoch 'Tocharisch'" (1937).
In addition there are five substantial reviews of works coming from the pen of Sylvain Lévi (review of Fragments de texts koutchéens, published 1933, reviewed 1934), "Die Kutsischen Karmavibhaaga-Texte der Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris (zu Prof. Lévi's Ausgabe und Übersetzung"), review published 1938), A. J. Van Windekens (review of Lexique étymologique des dialectes tokharians, published 1931, reviewed 1943, review of De Indo-Europeesche Bestanddeelen in de Tocharische Deklinatie, published 1940, reviewed 1943), and J. Filliozat ("Die medizinischen und tantrischen Texte der Pariser Sammlung in Tocharisch B. Bemerkungen zu...