Jaan Puhvel

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Jaan Puhvel (born January 24, 1932 in Tallinn ) is an Estonian - American ancient orientalist and linguist .

Life

Jaan Puhvel fled to Sweden with his parents in 1944 before the Soviet Union occupied Estonia . There he graduated from high school. From 1949 to 1952 studied Puhvel at McGill University in Canada Montreal and from 1952 to 1954 at Harvard University . In 1954/55 he went to the universities in Paris and Uppsala on a scholarship .

Puhvel then worked as a lecturer in classical languages ​​at McGill University in Montreal and at the University of Austin (Texas) . In 1959 he received his doctorate at Harvard to Dr. phil. From 1958 he taught classical languages and comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of California , since 1964 with the title of professor. He has also been visiting professor at the University of Tartu since the 1990s .

Jaan Puhvel is married to the Estonian microbiologist Sirje Madli Puhvel (* 1926). His brother was the Estonian-Canadian literary scholar and old Scandinavian Martin Puhvel (1933-2016).

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Jaan Puhvel published numerous studies on Indo-European studies. His best-known work is the as yet incomplete etymological dictionary of Hittite , which has been published since 1984. As a student of Georges Dumézil , Puhvel also did extensive research on comparative mythology .

Works (selection)

  • Laryngeals and the Indo-European verb . University of California Press, Berkeley / Los Angeles 1960.
  • Hittite Etymological Dictionary . Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin / New York / Amsterdam 1984–.
    • 1984, Vol. 1 (A)
    • 1984, Vol. 2 (E, I)
    • 1991, vol. 3 (H)
    • 1997, vol. 4 (K)
    • 2001, vol. 5 (L)
    • 2004, vol. 6 (M)
    • 2007, vol. 7 (N)
    • 2011, vol. 8 (PA)
    • 2013, Vol. 9 (PE, PI, PU)
    • 2017, Vol. 10 (SA)
  • Comparative mythology . Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore / London 1987. ISBN 978-0801839382 .
  • Indoeuropaea. Delectus operum minorum annos 1952-1977 complectus (Innsbruck 1989)
  • Homer and Hittite . Institute for Linguistics of the Univ. Innsbruck, Innsbruck 1991.
Editing
  • Substance and structure of language. Lectures delivered before the Linguistic Institute of the Linguistic Society of America: University of California, Los Angeles, June 17-August 12, 1966 . University of California Press, Los Angeles 1969.
  • Myth and law among the Indo-Europeans. Studies in Indo-European comparative mythology . University of California Press, London 1970.
Festschrift
  • Studies in Honor of Jaan Puhvel . 2 vol. Ed. V. Dorothy Disterheft, Martin Huld u. John Greppin. Institute for the Study of Man, Washington, DC 1997. ISBN 978-0941694544 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.tlu.ee/?LangID=1&CatID=927&ArtID=9217&action=article
  2. ↑ Eesti Elulood. Tallinn: Eesti Entsüklopeediakirjastus 2000 (= Eesti Entsüklopeedia 14 ) ISBN 9985-70-064-3 , p. 381
personal data
SURNAME Puhvel, Jaan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian-American Indo-Europeanist
DATE OF BIRTH January 24, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Tallinn