Sven-Erik Soosaar

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Sven-Erik Soosaar at an event of the Finno-Ugric Wikiseminar (2015)

Sven-Erik Soosaar (born November 12, 1973 in Estonia ) is an Estonian linguist and lexicographer . Since January 1, 2020 he has been the representative of his country in the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Affairs (UNPFII) of the United Nations .

Education and career

Sven-Erik Soosaar attended Pelgulinna High School in Tallinn from 1980 to 1991 . In 1995 he graduated from the University of Tartu with a degree in Classical Philology . Until 1996 he studied Greenlandic language and literature at the University of Greenland . He then studied Finnish-Ugrian and Assyriology at the University of Helsinki . In 1998 he obtained his master's degree in Estonian and Finno-Ugric Philology at the University of Tartu with a thesis on “Common Features of Samoyed and Escaludic Languages”. From 2001 to 2002 he studied general linguistics at the University of Konstanz .

From 2001 to 2002 he was an assistant at the Estonian Language Institute. In the following years he devoted himself to research and the publication of his research results. From 2008 to 2011 he headed a department at the Estonian Language Institute and was a member of the Research Council. In 2011 he became a PhD student in Estonian and Finno-Ugric Philology at the University of Tartu. From January 2013 to January 2015 he was a fellow of the Koneen Foudation in the working group of the linguist Jack Rueter at the University of Helsinki. In December Soosaar successfully defended his doctoral thesis in linguistics with the topic "Development of the Estonian cultural vocabulary - Estonian as a border language" at the University of Tartu.

He is currently employed as a Senior Researcher at the University of Helsinki.

In 2019 he was sent to the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Affairs (UNPFII) of the United Nations as a representative of Estonia for the period from 2020 to 2021.

Scientific work

Soosaar's work focuses on etymology and comparative linguistics (including Basque , Latvian , Ural languages such as Mari ). He went on numerous expeditions to Finno-Ugric communities in Russia, Finland and Latvia.

In 2000 he published the Estonian- Tundra-Nene dictionary and together with Szilárd Tóth (2000) the Hungarian- Estonian dictionary . He is co-editor of the Latin- Estonian Dictionary (2002) and the Estonian Dictionary of Etymology (2012).

Soosaar translated u. a. Plato's dialogue Euthyphron from ancient Greek and the temple hymn of the priest king Gudea from Sumerian .

Social Commitment

Soosaar is a member of the Finnish Fenno-Ugric Society , he was a co-organizer of the XII. International Conference on Minority Languages (2008–2009). He is a board member of the non-profit Fenno-Ugric Institution and the Estonian-Hungarian Society .

Soorsaar has been actively involved in the Estonian language Wikipedia since 2005. From 2014 to 2018 he was a board member, temporarily chairman of the Estonian Wikimedia .

Web links

Commons : Sven-Erik Soosaar  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ ETIS - Eesti keele kultuursõnavara arengujooni - eesti keel kui piirikeel. In: etis.ee. Retrieved June 8, 2020 (Estonian).
  2. ^ Sven-Erik Soosaar "Eesti keele kultuursõnavara arengujooni - eesti keel kui piirikeel" | Tartu Ülikool. In: ut.ee. Retrieved June 8, 2020 (Estonian).
  3. ↑ Sven-Erik Soosaar: Eesti keele kultuursõnavara arengujooni - eesti keel kui piirikeel , Tartu Ülikooli Kirjastus, Tartu, 2017
  4. ↑ Eesti eksperdiks ÜRO põlisrahvaste püsifoorumis sai Sven-Erik Soosaar. In: fennougria.ee. August 12, 2019, accessed June 8, 2020 (Estonian).
  5. ↑ Marju Lepajõe (ed.): Plato - Sokratese apologia. Phaedo. Crito. Pidusöök. Charmides. Phaedrus. Euthyphron , Ilmamaa, Tartu, 2003.
  6. ^ Sven-Erik Soosaar with Amar Annus: Kuningas Gudea templihümn , Kirjastuskeskus, Tallinn, 2002
  7. ↑ Juhtkond. In: ee.wikimedia.org. Retrieved June 8, 2020 (Estonian).
  8. ↑ http://fennougria.hgtechnology.net/asutus/mtu-fenno-ugria-asutuse-juhatus/ accessed on June 8, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Soosaar, Sven-Erik
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Estonian linguist and lexicographer
DATE OF BIRTH November 12, 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Estonia