Ernest Gellner 1925-1995

Sarah Gellner adds a factual correction: For anyone's information - my father Ernest Gellner did not die at Prague airport, as reported in some obituaries, but in his flat in that city. He had just returned from the airport.

• Paul Stirling, Professor Emeritus, University of Kent at Canterbury
• John Davis, Warden of All Souls, Oxford University
• Chris Hann, Dean of Social Sciences, University of Kent at Canterbury
• A brief obituary and a recent interview with Ernest Gellner may be found in the 10 November issue of THES. A summary is avilable from here
• A further note by Ioan Lewis was in the Independent on 15 November 1995
• Other obituaries may be found on p 39 of the November 1995 EASA Newsletter and in the December edition of Anthropology Today - the latter by Tamara Dragadze - and it also lists other obituaries.

  Note that the RAI have refused permission for us to include the text of this obituary here.