Viktor Pavlovich Kalygin

Viktor Pavlovich Kalygin ( Russian Виктор Павлович Калыгин , scientific transliteration Viktor Pavlovič Kalygin , French Victor Kalyguine ; born October 18, 1950 in Kovrov , Vladimir Oblast , † December 4, 2004 in Moscow ) was a Russian Celtologist .

Life

After studying Indo-European - including Celtic - Languages at the Leningrad State University Kalygin had since 1975 a postgraduate course at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR held. In 1979, he put his Inaugural -Dissertation " Особенности языка древнейшей ирландской поэзии в сравнительно-историческом освещении " ( The specifics of the old Irish language in comparative-historical observation before). In collaboration with - 1989 its significant appeared Andrei Alexandrovich Koroljew created - Introduction to Celtic philology ( Введение в кельтскую филологию ).

From 1990 to 1992 Kalygin worked in Germany as a scholarship holder of the A. von Humboldt Fund, first at the Albert Ludwigs University of Freiburg , then at the University of Bonn with Karl Horst Schmidt . In 1993 he taught as a visiting professor at the Chair of Celtic Research at Harvard University .

After his return to Russia, Kalygin continued his studies in the field of Celtology. In 1997 he completed his habilitation with the thesis " Истоки древнеирландской мифопоэтической традиции " ( sources of the old Irish mythopoetic tradition ). Since May 2001, Kalygin was deputy director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences for scientific work and from 2002 head of the department for Indo-European languages. His Etymological Dictionary of Celtic Theonyms was published posthumously in 2006.

Works

Monographs

• Особенности языка древнейшей ирландской поэзии в сравнительно-историческом освещении ( The peculiarities of the ancient Irish language ; in historical-comparative consideration ). Moscow 1979.
• Язык древнейшей ирландской поэзи ( The language of the oldest Irish poetry ). Moscow 1986; 2nd Edition. Moscow 2003; French translation: La langue de la poésie irlandaise archaïque . Hamburg 1993.
• Введение в кельтскую филологию ( Introduction to Celtic Philology ). Moscow 1989; 2nd Edition. Moscow 2006 (together with AA Koroljew).
• Истоки древнеирландской мифопоэтической традиции ( sources of the old Irish mythopoetic tradition ; habilitation thesis). Moscow 1997.
• Этимологический словарь кельтских теонимов ( Etymological Dictionary of Celtic Theonyms ). Moscow 2006.

items

• Principes de l'organization phonique du texte dans la poésie irlandaise archaïque . In: Metrics and the media (1991), pp. 189-195.
• Quelques aspectes mythologiques de la tradition grammaticale vieil-irlandaise . In: Études Celtiques 29 (1992), pp. 241-248.
• Indo-European poetry and ancient Irish mythopoetic tradition . In: Zeitschrift für Celtische Philologie (ZCP) 46 (1994), pp. 1-10.
• Two correspondances de vocabulaire mythologique entre les langues celtiques et balto-slaves . In: ZCP 49 (1997), pp. 366-372.
• Some archaic elements of Celtic cosmology . In: ZCP 53 (2003), pp. 70-76.
• The Celts and the Slavs: on KH Schmidt's hypothesis on the eastern origin of the Celts . In: Parallels between Celtic and Slavic (2006), pp. 63-70.

literature

• Anna Muradova, Karl Horst Schmidt: VP Kalygin † (1950-2004) . In: Mac Mathúna, S. / Fomin, M. (eds.): Parallels between Celtic and Slavic: Proceedings of the First International Colloquium of Societas Celto-Slavica held at the University of Ulster, Coleraine, 19-21 June 2005 . [= Studia Celto-Slavica 1], ISBN 0-3-370-8836-5 , p. 313ff.

Web links

• Short biography on breizh.ru (Russian)