By Jose Kavi
New Delhi, July 29, 2020: Father George Gispert Sauch, a renowned theologian and Sanskrit scholar who taught generations of Indian seminarians, died on July 29 in Mumbai. He was 90.
Father Gispert, as he was popularly known, was leading a retirement life at Vinayalaya, Jesuit center in Mumbai’s Andheri.
The Spanish missionary died because of old age, Jesuit Father Stan Alla, a professor at Delhi’s Vidyajyoti theologate and a former colleague of Father Gispert, told Matters India.
Father Gispert spent most of his years teaching theology. He was reputed as a great scholar of Hindu scriptures who taught how Asian thought and culture could be incorporated into theologizing across the region.
“The start wasn’t easy but I was eager to learn and I did my degrees in theology and Sanskrit,” Father Gispert told an interview when he was teaching at Vidyajyoti College of Theology. He taught there from 1971 until his retirement in 2015.
Details of funeral are awaited.