RIP Robert V. O'Neill

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I ll write in French...
Je viens d'apprendre le décès de Bob le 24 août 2019
Je suis très attristé
Ce fut un compagnon de route avec lequel j'eus de nombreux échanges publics et privés.
Résumer son oeuvre et son apport est mission impossible.
Mon témoignage :
Un pionnier en recherches historiques et iconographiques sur les tarots
Chercheur atypique il sut confronter hardiment mais impartialement les hypothèses avec les données accessibles
Une Figure controversée certes mais combien incontournable de l histoire de la recherche tarologique contemporaine


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http://www.sgdl-auteurs.org/alain-bouge ... Biographie

Robert V. O'Neill .... ??????

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https://www.tarot.com/bios/robert-oneill
Tarot.com was the place, where some material of Bob O'Neill once was published. The page is dated Nov 16 2021. It isn't stated, that Bob had died in 2019
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https://www.tarot.com/tarot/robert-onei ... -symbolism

I don't find a confirmation for "August 24 2019" in context to "Robert V. O'Neill". I found a birth year 1940, if he indeed died 2019, he would have been 79 years old then.
Nov 16, 2021
Dr. Robert V. O'Neill, Tarot Author
Tarot Scholar and Author
Robert ONeill
By Robert ONeill
Experts, Insight, Tarot
Dr. O'Neill recently retired as Senior Research Scientist and Corporate Fellow, Environmental Sciences Division, Oak Ridge National Laboratory. He has more than 240 publications including several books on Ecological Theory. He has served on the National Science Foundation Panel on Ecological Sciences and the Editorial Boards of Ecology, Columbia University Press, Ecosystem Journal, and Conservation Ecology. He is past President of the US Society for Ecological Economics. He has received numerous awards including: Distinguished Statistical Ecologist, Distinguished Landscape Ecologist, and the prestigious Robert H. MacArthur Award from the Ecological Society of America.

Bob's interest in Tarot dates back to the 1950's when he first encountered the cards. He has produced 60 unpublished decks. He and a colleague developed a statistical analysis of Tarot imagery that was published in the Journal of the International Playing Card Society in 1982. His major work on the symbolism of the 15th century Tarot, Tarot Symbolism, was published in 1986.

He has presented his research on the history of Tarot at the first two International Tarot Symposia in Chicago and at a similar symposium in Florida. Recent work has included a web-book on the possible contribution of the Medieval heresy of Catharism on the Tarot designers.
The book Tarot Symbolism can be downloaded here ...
http://docplayer.net/183719570-Tarot-sy ... neill.html
I'm not sure, that this works ....

A short biography at the page of Andre Vitali ...
http://letarot.it/page.aspx?id=26
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Added in 2023:
https://www.tarot.com/articles/bios/rob ... ill?page=1
The late Dr. Robert V. O'Neill was a Tarot scholar, author, and award-winning ecologist. His interest in Tarot began in the 1950s when he first encountered the cards. Dr. O'Neill and a colleague developed a statistical analysis of Tarot imagery that was published in the Journal of the International Playing Card Society in 1982. Over the course of his career, he produced 60 unpublished Tarot decks and 240 publications, including his renowned book on the symbolism of 15th-century Tarot, Tarot Symbolism. He also attended the first two International Tarot Symposia in Chicago to present his research on the history of Tarot.
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