Igor Mikhailovich Djakonov

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Igor M. Diakonoff ( Russian Игорь Михайлович Дьяконов * December 30, 1914 . Jul / 12. January  1915 greg. In Petrograd ; † 2. May 1999 in Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian orientalist , linguist and historian .

Life

Because of his father's job, Djakonov lived in Oslo for a while in his youth . His mother was a trained doctor, but hardly worked in her profession. Djakonov's older brother, Mikhail, was an expert on Iranian history and archeology.

Djakonow studied at the University of Leningrad with Natalja Dawidowna Flittner until 1938 and then got a job at the Hermitage . He stayed here until 1941 when the German attack on the Soviet Union began. Djakonov fought against the Germans in Norway in 1944. After the war he worked between 1946 and 1950 at the University of Leningrad on Sumer , Assyria and the media . He then returned to the Hermitage, where he was curator of the cuneiform texts until 1959. His later work concentrated mainly on Afro-Asian , Caucasian and Hurricane-Urartian languages . In 1975 he was elected a corresponding member of the British Academy . In 1984 he was accepted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences .

Djakonow was able to read various ancient oriental languages ​​in cuneiform and translated and published, among other things, legal texts. Together with Sergei Anatoljewitsch Starostin he showed in 1986 that the languages ​​Hurrian and Urartian are related to the Northeast Caucasian languages .

Works

Djakonov published two dozen books and hundreds of specialist articles in several languages. Here is a selection of the books he has published in English, Russian, and German:

  • Razvitie zemel'nykh otnosheniĭ v Assirii (Development of Agrarian Connections in Assyria), Leningrad, 1949
  • Istoriya Midii s drevneĭshikh vremen do kontsa IV veka do n.è. (History of the media from prehistoric times to the end of the 4th century BC), Moscow and Leningrad, 1956
  • A Comparative Survey of the Hurrian and Urartean Languages, Moscow, 1957
  • E`pos o Gil'gameshe (“O vse videvshem”) (The Gilgamesh Epic (About the One Who Saw Everything)), Moscow and Leningrad, 1961
  • Semito-Hamitic Languages: an Essay in Classification, Moscow, 1965
  • Hurricane and Urartean, Munich, 1971
  • Parthian Economic Documents from Nisa, ed. DN MacKenzie, 5 volumes, London, 1976-2002
  • Geographical Names According to Urartian Texts, Wiesbaden, 1981
  • Hurro-Urartian as an Eastern Caucasian Language. Munich 1986 (together with Sergei Anatoljewitsch Starostin ).

literature

  • M. Lionel Bender , Gábor Takács: Selected comparative-historical Afrasian linguistic Studies. In Memory of Igor M. Diakonoff (= LINCOM Studies in Afroasiatic linguistics 14). Lincom Europa, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-89586-857-4 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed on May 21, 2020 (here: Igor Diakonoff).
personal data
SURNAME Djakonow, Igor Michailowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Дьяконов, Игорь Михайлович (Russian); IM Diakonoff
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian ancient orientalist, linguist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH January 12, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Petrograd
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1999
Place of death St. Petersburg