Georgi Martynowitsch Kert

Georgi Martynowitsch Kert

Georgi Martynowitsch Kert ( Russian Гео́ргий Марты́нович Керт ; born February 1, 1923 in Kamenka near Petrograd ; † September 26, 2009 in Petrozavodsk ) was a Soviet Russian linguist and specialist in Baltic Finnish and Sami languages ​​of Russia.

Life

Georgi Kert was born on February 1, 1923 in the village of Kamenka (now Lomonosov Raion in Leningrad Oblast ). After graduating from school, he was drafted into the Red Army as a young adult and took part in World War II , where he was wounded during the Leningrad blockade in 1944.

After the war, Kert enrolled as a student of Finno-Ugric Studies at the Philological Faculty of St. Petersburg State University . His studies , he graduated with honors in 1950. Then he was Aspirant (PhD student) on linguistic institute of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Leningrad in 1953 and was treated with a dissertation to verbs in Finnish for fil candidates. nauk (Dr. phil.) is doing his doctorate . His doctoral supervisor was Ivan Meschtschaninow .

After completing his doctorate, Kert took a position as a researcher at the Institute for Language, Literature and History of the Karelian Regional Department of the Academy in Petrozavodsk . Between 1959 and 1986 he was the head of the linguistic department of this institute. As a linguist, he was mainly concerned with the documentation and description of the Sami languages ​​on the Kola Peninsula . Kert's first teacher in Finno-Ugric Studies, Dmitri Vladimirovich Bubrich , played a key role in specializing in this field . Kert felt a deep connection with this well-known Russian and Soviet Finno-Ugrist throughout his life. In 1975 he dedicated a biographical monograph to him .

In 1972 Kert graduated as a doctor fil. nauk (private lecturer) qualified as a professor . His habilitation thesis on Kildin Sami , published in 1971, was the first comprehensive descriptive grammar of an East Sami language.

Georgi Kert died on September 26, 2009 in Petrozavodsk.

Fonts (selection)

• 1961. Obrastsy zamskoj retschi . Moscow
• 1971. Saamski jasyk (Kildinski dialect) . Leningrad
• 1975. Dmitri Wladimirowitsch Bubrich 1890–1949 . Leningrad
• 1985. Slowar saamsko-russki i russko-saamski . Leningrad
• 1988. Obrastsy zamskoy rchi . Moscow (Ed. Together with WS Panfilow and PM Sajkow)
• 2009. Saamskaya toponimnaja leksika . Petrozavodsk

Awards

• Order of the Great Patriotic War 1st class
• Medal of the Order of Merit for the Fatherland 2nd class

literature

• Leif Rantala: Saami studies: Russia / USSR . In: Ulla-Maija Kulonen (ed.): The Saami: a cultural encyclopaedia . Helsinki 2005, p. 363–365 ( Electronic version [accessed January 9, 2013]).
• Leif Rantala: Georgij Kert 1923–2009 . In: Finnish-Ugric research . 61, 2012, pp. 238-240.
• Pekka Zaikov: In memoriam: Г. М. КЕРТ (02/01/1923 - 09/26/2009) . In: Linguistica Uralica . 46, No. 1, 2010, ISSN  1736-7506 , pp. 77-80.

Web links

• Керт Георгий Мартынович (short biography and bibliography in Russian)
• Умер Георгий Керт… (Nekrolog in Russian)
• Ушёл языковед Георгий Мартынович Керт (necrology in Russian)