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Professor Robert Hanhart, the most distinguished Septuagint scholar of our age, died peacefully in Göttingen on 11 July 2025 at the age of 100. His passing deprives Septuagint studies of its longest-serving and most illustrious text editor, theologian and linguist of exceptional calibre, and the wider academy of a Swiss-born Göttingen scholar of international standing. His critical editions remain enduring monuments of philological rigour, and his legacy will continue through the Robert Hanhart Foundation. May he rest in peace. Read the full obituary here.

A Festschrift has been published in honour of Professor Hanhart’s centenary:

Das Erbe der Göttinger Septuaginta. Festschrift aus Anlass des 100. Geburtstages von Robert Hanhart (1925–2025).