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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2018-08-28 human Helen Cohn updated 2025-11-05 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P006117b.htm person Hercus Luise Anna AM FAHA AACR2 Schwarzschild, Luise Anna 16 January 1926 15 April 2018 Place of Birth Munich, Germany Place of Death Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia Ethnologist Linguist Luise Hercus was an ethnologist and linguist who was renowned for her efforts to record the ancestral languages and songs of Aboriginal people. Armed with a tape recorder and little funding, she sought out those with knowledge of indigenous languages. With patience and sympathy, and an evident interest in their personal stories, she encouraged the Aboriginal people she met to commit what they remembered to tape. Starting in Victoria in the 1960s, Hercus later extended her work into neighbouring states and Central Australia. Her first major work in over 100 publications was The languages of Victoria: a late survey (1969). She lodged with the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies over 1,000 hours of recordings in over 56 languages and dialects. Hercus also had a distinguished career as a linguist of Middle Indo-Aryan dialects, and published a significant body of work under her maiden name. 1946 1946 Education - Bachelor of Arts (BA), University of Oxford 1948 1948 Education - Master of Arts (MA), University of Oxford 1948 1948 Career position - Fellow, St Anne's College, University of Oxford 1948 1954 Career position - Lecturer in French Philology, University of Oxford 1954 1954 Life event - Settled in Australia 1965 1969 Career position - Research Fellow, University of Adelaide 1969 1991 Career position - Senior Lecturer (later Reader) in Sanskrit, Department of South Asian and Buddhist Studies, Australian National University 1978 2018 Award - Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities (FAHA) 1991 Career position - Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Australian National University 1995 1995 Award - Member of the Order of Australia (AM) - for service to education and linguistics particularly through the preservation of Aboriginal languages and culture 1 Jan 2001 1 Jan 2001 Award - Centenary Medal - for service to Australian society and the humanities in the study of linguistics and philology Australian National University (1946 - )

Senior Lecturer (later Reader) in Sanskrit, Department of South Asian and Buddhist Studies 1969 - 1991

 Australian Academy of the Humanities (1969 - )

Fellow 1978 - 2018

 'Hercus, Luise Anna', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Hercus, Luise Anna Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Resource: Fellows of the Academy Australian Academy of the Humanities Fellows of the Academy Australian Academy of the Humanities Journal Article: The Surveys of F. P. MacCabe and his Records of Aboriginal Placenames at the Junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers Hope, Jeannette and Hercus, Luise The Surveys of F. P. MacCabe and his Records of Aboriginal Placenames at the Junction of the Murray and Darling Rivers 2009 Proceedings of the Royal Society of Victoria 121 193-204 Book Section: "I am sorry to bother you": a unique partnership between Luise Hercus and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in Koch, Grace; and Obata, Kazuko "I am sorry to bother you": a unique partnership between Luise Hercus and the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies in London EL Publishing 2017 Language, land and song: studies in honour of Luise Hercus Austin, Peter K., Koch, Harold and Simpson, Jane 44-56 Book Section: Luise Hercus's research in the Lake Eyre Basin, 1965 - 2005 Gara, Tom Luise Hercus's research in the Lake Eyre Basin, 1965 - 2005 London EL Publishing 2017 Language, land and song: studies in honour of Luise Hercus Austin, Peter K., Koch, Harold and Simpson, Jane 23-43 Edited Book: Language, land and song: studies in honour of Luise Hercus Austin, Peter K.; Koch, Harold; and Simpson, Jane Language, land and song: studies in honour of Luise Hercus London EL Publishing 2017 Edited Book: Language and history: essays in honour of Luise A. Hercus Austin, Peter Language and history: essays in honour of Luise A. Hercus Canberra Department of Linguistics, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University 1990 Journal Article: Luise Hercus and Aboriginal history Sutton, Peter Luise Hercus and <span style="font-style:italic">Aboriginal history</span> 2018 Aboriginal history 42 xix-xxvi Journal Article: Luise Hercus AM, FAHA 1926 - 2018 Koch, Harold Luise Hercus AM, FAHA 1926 - 2018 2018 Aboriginal history 42 xv-xviii Newspaper Article: Luise Hercus 1926 - 2018: Australia's first languages preserved Gibson, Jason Luise Hercus 1926 - 2018: Australia's first languages preserved 2018 The Age 40