2019年1月30日下午4点，张茂林同学的追悼会于莱顿大学Academy Building如期举行。到场参加追悼会的有茂林的家人，莱顿天文台系主任、茂林导师Huub R?ttgering教授，莱顿大学科学学院院长Geert de Snoo教授，Hillegom市长，中国驻荷大使馆代表，LSC代表，清华大学荷兰校友会代表，全荷学联代表，警方代表，消防人员代表，湖南同乡会代表，以及天文系同事和中国留学生在内的200多位到场嘉宾。

悼会以天文系Paul van der Werf教授的管风琴音乐开场，利用图片和文字简单向观众们介绍了张茂林的生平。随后，茂林的导师、莱顿天文台系主任Huub R?ttgering教授致辞，他对茂林的不幸去世表达了沉重哀悼，对茂林生前所从事的射电天文学研究进行了简单介绍，深情的缅怀了茂林并对茂林父亲表达了感激和慰问（演讲原稿见附文）。接下来，Hillegom市长回顾了火灾的发生，对这一不幸事件深表遗憾，并对茂林家人表达了慰问。

参加追悼会的代表依次上前台为茂林献花。

之后，LSC主席蒋峰和天文系博士生王东刚致辞，他们回顾了茂林为LSC做出的杰出贡献，茂林在荷兰的科研与生活，以及与茂林的友谊。随后，与茂林一起工作的同事，莱顿天文台博士后Kenneth Duncan发言，对茂林的学术贡献给出了高度评价。

最后茂林的父亲上台发言，他回顾了茂林的一生，表达了对儿子的深切哀思，并郑重感谢了大家的全力支持和帮助。茂林父亲的致辞饱含深情却又理性克制，让在场的听众们为之动容。他做了一首七言律诗《哀儿茂林》，让人尤为感动。一位农民父亲痛失爱子后表现出的坚强、理智和友善赢得了所有人的敬佩和尊重。

哀儿茂林

出身寒微志弥坚，报国须待成楚才。

一七惊雷人人痛，三湘情动处处哀。

桑梓父老犹可怜，天妒英才催人衰。

身守莱顿忧天下，魂归双桥报春来。

2019年1月30日于荷兰莱顿大学

莱顿大学的答辩仪仗官（Beadle）将一个破缺的印章作为纪念品送给了茂林的家人，代表对茂林无法完成PhD学业的惋惜。天文系的同事也将过去两周内在悼念室收集到的留言整理成一本纪念册，转赠给了茂林的父亲。

仪式结束后，组织人员在学术楼的室内庭院为大家准备了中式和西式的点心和饮料，许多参与人员对茂林的家人表达了慰问。

莱顿大学校长前来对茂林的家人表示慰问

LSC部分参会成员

追悼会结束后，我们从学术楼出发，手捧鲜花和蜡烛，在莱顿市中心的街道上进行了一次默哀行。在终点，莱顿老天文台旧址，大家献上鲜花和蜡烛，默哀悼念，结束了周三的纪念活动。

（文中图片均由莱顿天文台同事Joshua Albert拍摄并提供）

后续：

茂林在莱顿的墓地选在了离科学学院不远的Rhijnhof墓园。1月31日下午，我们和天文系的几位老师一起陪同茂林的家人在那里举行了一个简单的葬礼。

火灾的原因警方还在调查中，一般需要一段时间才会给出正式的报告。茂林的家人已经安排了代理律师来继续跟进调查进展，我们也将保持关注。

悲剧发生后，从自发的悼念和关切，到募捐和协助组织各项纪念活动，再到志愿陪伴远道而来的家属，我们中国留学生都贡献了举足轻重的力量，让人感到无比的温暖。谢谢大家，辛苦了！

茂林的事至此暂时告一段落，茂林的家人也将启程回国。

斯人已逝，生者如斯。挥别了茂林，生活还将继续；缅怀着朋友，我们将奋然前行。

再次感谢各位同学这段时间对茂林的关心和支持，提前祝大家春节快乐，珍重！

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附：追悼会部分致辞原文

茂林导师，莱顿天文台系主任Huub R?ttgering教授致辞

Dear Zhang Limin, Zhou Liang, Zhou Wenwei,

Mr. Arie van Erk, Mayor of Hillegom,

Professor Geert de Snoo, Dean of the Leiden University Faculty of Science

Staff of the Embassy of the Peoples Republic of China: Mr. Meng en Ms. Bai

Dear friends and colleagues,

Zhang Maolin was born on July 25th 1991. He passed away during the early morning of January 17th 2019 during a terrible fire at his home in Hillegom.

The loss of a child is the worst thing that can happen to a parent. The loss of a fellow astronomer is the worst thing that can happen to our institute. The loss of a fellow student is the worst thing that can happen to the Chinese community at our University. The loss of a human being is the worst thing that can happen to any of us.

How can we understand that there was ‘’nothing’’ before the big bang – the  very beginning of the Universe? Along the same lines, we all know that ‘nothing’ can really describe the loss of Maolin. The only way forward is for us to collectively share our memories and provide help to all in need.

I am therefore glad to see so many people from such diverse backgrounds are attending this memorial event today. I warmly welcome all of you.

Maolin grew up in the countryside near Yangtang Village, Hunan Province, China. After graduating from secondary school, he was admitted to the prestigious Tsinghua University in Beijing. He obtained a Masters degree in Engineering in July 2016. This accomplishment has earned our deepest respect and made him a true hero in his hometown. Over the years his interest in astronomy grew and during the summer of 2014 he traveled to Dwingeloo in the Netherlands to participate in a student summer programme on radio astronomy at the Netherlands Institute for Radio Astronomy, ASTRON.

What is radio astronomy? If we look up at the night sky our eyes can see light shining from stars and our own Milky Way galaxy (slide 1). Radio telescopes – like LOFAR (slide 2), with its stations located all over Europe (slide 3) – make pictures of the radio sky. Again, this is our Milky Way seen in ordinary light (slide 1+4) and this is the radio picture (slide 5) of the sky we would see if we looked up with radio eyes. Amazingly there are no stars in the radio pictures. The familiar constellations are no longer there! During the past half century this huge difference between the “normal” image of the sky and the radio image has had a profound influence on our ideas about the heavens and all of the stories that go with it.

We now know that all the star-like objects that we see on the radio images are not stars but are in fact very distant galaxies that are each forming thousands of millions of stars, and have massive black holes at their centres. Just like me, Maolin was fascinated by radio astronomy. Together we explored possibilities that might enable Maolin to do a PhD in radio astronomy at Leiden. We were both delighted when his application for a scholarship from the Chinese Scholarship Council (CSC) was successful.

He started his research here in mid-2017, working on understanding the radio emission  from these very distant galaxies. He was well on his way to publishing a paper in which he would be first author.

Who was Maolin? Maolin was an extremely intelligent, hardworking and dedicated student with a passion for astronomy. He was eager to learn, always seeking to develop his skills, knowledge and experience further. He was very friendly, always smiling, modest and grateful for his chances in life. He had many interests outside of astronomy, including table tennis, tennis, Chinese chess, cooking and fishing.

Dear father of Maolin, Zhang Limin,

I am extremely grateful to you for many reasons.

First, you and your wife gave us your gifted son to help us in our quest to understand the Universe.

Second, your hard work over so many years provided the basis that
enabled Maolin to attend Tsinghua University.

Third, our friendship has grown during the past week and I already know
it will be long lasting. Given the difficulty of the situation, I am
humbled by your constant gratitude to all of us.

Fourth, although we both know that Maolin was very happy here, I am touched that tomorrow half of Maolin’s ashes will be buried at the Rhijnhof Cemetry, only 1 kilometer from our institute. This will be a lasting testimony of Maolin’s life in the Netherlands and of the bond between your family and our institute.

Finally, you and Maolin have set an example to all of us that will leave an indelible mark in our memories.

Thank you very much. I promise you and your wife that we will do our best to ensure that Maolin remains a visible inspiration to all young people everywhere, especially those in your home town of Yangtang Village and Hunan Province.

茂林同事，莱顿天文台博士后Kenneth Duncan博士致辞

Mr Zhang, family, friends and colleagues of Maolin,

My name is Kenneth Duncan, I’m a post-doctoral researcher working in the radio astronomy group here at Leiden Observatory. Over the last 18 months I had the honour and the privilege of working alongside Maolin.

I think I can speak for most astronomers when i say that we do not choose this career for money, fame, or because it is an easy life. We choose it because of a love of Astronomy, because of a curiosity about how nature works and a desire to answer some of the most fundamental questions about the Universe.

I think this is especially true for Maolin. With his intelligence and his background in engineering, Maolin could have chosen any number of paths and been successful in whichever he chose. But a love of astronomy brought him here to the Netherlands, firstly to ASTRON and then here to Leiden to begin his PhD.

When he arrived in mid-2017, Maolin began his work here by assisting on a research paper led by a colleague, Aayush Saxena. Quiet and conscientious, but showing great independence and teaching himself many of the new techniques and skills required, Maolin’s ability and expertise contributed immensely towards discoveries that are having a clear impact in the astronomy community.

Maolin’s next project aimed to build upon and advance the work done by Jonah Wagenveld. The goal of this project was to discover new samples of some of the rarest and most extreme galaxies deep into the very earliest stages of the Universe.

Working closely both with Jonah and myself, the project was progressing well and Maolin was on his way to his first paper before this opportunity was so tragically taken from him.

Throughout the time that I worked with Maolin, he was unfailingly friendly, polite and a genuine pleasure to work with. The way he conducted himself was truly a credit to his family and his community.

Writing about the difficulty of doing science while dealing with difficult personal circumstances, last week the American astronomer John Wise wrote some words that feel appropriate here, he said “Research can always wait. Life is irreplaceable”.

The research will wait. We can, and will, complete this project on Maolin’s behalf to honour his legacy. But Maolin really is irreplaceable. This project, our research group and the observatory will be the poorer for his absence. And we will always be grateful for the time Maolin spent with us.

Finally, I would like to say to Mr Zhang and your family. Although we cannot begin to feel the full impact of this tragedy as you do, please know that we feel this loss and our thoughts are with you.

茂林朋友，LSC主席蒋峰博士致辞

茂林的父亲、兄长、朋友、同事，

今天我们怀着无比沉痛的心情一齐来到这里送别我们的一位亲人、一位挚友、一位朝夕相处的同事---茂林。茂林与我相识于2017年九月，那时候他还是天文系的一名新生。他安静、腼腆却又积极参加Leiden Science China社区组织的各项活动。后来他成为了协会的一名董事，在此期间，他主要负责协会的宣传工作，在他负责的这一段时间里，协会的各项活动都得到了非常好的推广，而且协会的声誉也有了极大的提高。与此同时，茂林还组织小伙伴一起为协会设计了一个LOGO，这也让我们的协会有了一个自己的标识。茂林为我们协会的发展，为中荷留学生的交流贡献了一份非常重要的力量。

一个月前，协会的小伙伴们一起聚餐时，你和我说回家的时候天太黑了，容易迷路。今天你的亲人、你的朋友还有你的同事一起为你照亮前行的道路，让你不再迷失。天堂甚远，愿君一路平安。

逝者逝亦，生者善之，希望茂林的父母、家人以及诸位坚强！　

茂林朋友，洛伦兹理论物理所与莱顿天文台博士生，LSC成员王东刚致辞

各位亲朋，各位来宾，

茂林的去世让我们深感悲痛。

在我眼中，茂林一直是一个内秀，朴实而又善良的人。他喜欢星空和宇宙，而他研究的，正是遥远宇宙中的星系、类星体和黑洞。同为天文系的中国博士生，我跟茂林有很多的交集。而且我们在LSC中共事的经历，更是留下了很多难忘的回忆。

留学生活充满了酸甜苦辣，有科研上的不顺，也有生活上的麻烦。好在有朋友相伴，我们并不孤单。现在回想起来，作为师兄，我没能在茂林生前给他更多的帮助和鼓励，不禁感到汗颜。但茂林一直很坚强，一直在努力。看到他的科研和生活都在步入正轨，我真为他感到高兴。而万万没想到，他却在这种时候突然离世，真的让人感到十分惋惜。

最近这些天，我回想了很多关于茂林的故事——他的迷茫与抉择，他的纠结与奋斗。仔细品味，我才发现他的人生所具有的独特的色彩，就像夜空中一颗明亮的星，给我们生者以启迪，以及坚强前行的力量。

人生如梦，而我们的征途却是星辰大海。茂林，你走的太突然。也许，你只是先我们一步，去了一个数亿光年外遥远的星系。那里，没有苦难和忧虑，没有沉重的现实，也没有生活的不易。愿你在天上一直平安喜乐，永远像个孩子一样，无忧亦无惧。

-资料来源

 LeidenScience公众号文章（茂林，走好-追悼会纪实）