Vyacheslav Vsevolodowitsch Ivanov

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Vyacheslav Ivanov (2011)

Vyacheslav Ivanov ( Russian Вячеслав Всеволодович Иванов * 21st August 1929 in Moscow , † 7. October 2017 ) was a Soviet or Russian philologist and Indo-Europeanist , a professor at the Russian State University for the Humanities and the University of California, Los Angeles .

life and career

His father was the writer Vsevolod Ivanov . He spent the war time in the evacuation in Tashkent . In 1946 he finished school in Moscow and in 1951 a linguistic degree. He defended his dissertation on the candidate of science on a Hittite topic in Moscow. The habilitation (Doctor of Science) took place in 1978 at the University of Vilnius on the Baltic and Slavic verbs. Ivanov was admitted to the British Academy in 1977 , to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1993 , to the American Philosophical Society in 1994, and to the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2000 . He received the Lenin Prize in 1988 .

He was known in particular as a co-founder - together with Tamas Gamqrelidse - of the glottal theory , according to which the plosives in the Indo-European original language were given a completely different grouping. In these works, the region around Lake Urmia is seen as the original home of the Indo-Europeans .

Another large area of ​​work included the Baltic and Slavic mythology and religious history, many of which were written together with Vladimir Toporov .

Ivanov was one of the editors of the Journal of Indo-European Studies. He has written 15 books and well over 1,000 scientific articles.

Political statements

In 2012, Ivanov stated that the whole story speaks for Russia to change the system. However, since "neither Putin nor Medvedev or Churov " could be convinced, there was a high probability that a lot of blood would flow: he believed that liberalization of the regime was impossible because he and President Putin had a "pathological passion for money" recognize in him a "dangerous personality". Among the people who brought Putin to power there were still capable people, later there was only a band of bandits whose boss Putin was "an unwise and not very talented person, comparable to Stalin".

Individual evidence

  1. Member History: Vyacheslav V. Ivanov. American Philosophical Society, accessed October 10, 2018 (English, with a short biography).
  2. W.Iwanow Philosophical Faculty on the side of Lomonosov Moscow State University. Retrieved November 4, 2018 (Russian).
  3. Vyacheslav Ivanov: "Если они испугаются, то начнут делать необратимые вещи" . The New Times (Новое время), May 14, 2012, accessed October 9, 2017 (Russian: "When you're scared, start doing irreversible things.").

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