"Manfred Mayrhofer, emeritus professor of General and Indo-European Linguistics at the University of Vienna, who after having been for more than forty years a very active and prolific member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences has passed away on 31 October 2011, was one of the most important Indo-European and Indo-Iranian scholars of our time. In the present small book Mayrhofer's life and œuvre is described and appreciated in succinct form by his first pupil. The main part of the volume is the complete list of Mayrhofer's writings, classified according to monographs, articles, reviews, and editorial as well as bibliographical activities; the last section contains autobiographical items and literature about Mayrhofer."--Publisher's website.