Horst Herrlich

Horst Herrlich

[Hans-E. Porst]

Dear colleagues,

It is with great sadness that I report that my friend and colleague for many years, Horst Herrlich, died yesterday.

Quite a number of you will remember visits you paid to the CatMAT seminar in Bremen, which Horst and I have run for more than 20 years.

Horst will be missed by many of his colleagues and students.

Hans-E. Porst


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Re: Horst Herrlich

[Björn Gohla]

On Saturday 14 March 2015 18:32:04 Hans-E.  Porst wrote:
> Dear colleagues,
> 
> It is with great sadness that I report that my friend and colleague for many
> years, Horst Herrlich, died yesterday.
> 
> Quite a number of you will remember visits you paid to the CatMAT seminar in
> Bremen, which Horst and I have run for more than 20 years.
[...]

sad indeed. i have very fond memories of horst and the katmat seminar.

--
björn


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Re: Horst Herrlich

[Lutz Schröder]

This is sad and in the end surprising news. Horst Herrlich was my PhD
supervisor at the end of the nineties, and coauthor of my first papers.
Working with him was immensely inspiring and enjoyable, and his style of
mathematical thinking influenced me profoundly. We all will miss him.

Lutz



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Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t
Erlangen-N?rnberg
Department of Computer Science
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Re: Horst Herrlich

[Jiri Adamek]

This is very sad news: Horst was a personality which profoundly influenced
the development of category theory. Even before meeting him personally I
was enchanted by his lecture notes on topological reflections and
corelfections. And a couple of years later during his visit in Prague we
started an intense collaboration that lasted over thirty years. His
enthusiasm and his broad field of knowledge and interests was a great
source of energy and inspiration for people around Horst. And at times of
isolation in the seventieth and eightieth in socialist Prague Horst's
visits had a tremendous impact. I will never forget the years of writing
our joint book with George Strecker- before email in Prague and with
every letter checked (for weeks) by secret police... Typically for Horst
during his illness he was spreading jokes and pieces of information among
his friends, never mentioning any of his problems. This is why the news of
his passing has come completely unexpectedly. This is a great loss for me.

Jiri Adamek

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Re: Horst Herrlich

[Fred E.J. Linton]

What a shocker to learn that Horst is no longer with us!
He always gave the impression of being one of the indestructibles!
I will miss his always jovial, affable, ovuncular presence.
The categorical world will not be the same without him.

-- FEJ Linton

[Hans-E. Porst <heporst@gmail.com> had written,

> It is with great sadness that I report that my friend and
> colleague for many years, Horst Herrlich, died yesterday.]



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