Alexander Lubotsky | |
|---|---|
| Александр Маркович Лубоцкий | |
| Born | (1956-04-16)16 April 1956 (age 69) Moscow, Russian SFSR |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Moscow State University Leiden University |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Leiden University |
Alexander Markovich Lubotsky, also known asSasha Lubotsky (Russian:Александр Маркович Лубоцкий; born 16 April 1956), is a Russian-Dutch linguist andIndologist who specializes in the study ofIndo-Iranian languages.[1][2] He is the editor-in-chief of theLeidenIndo-European Etymological Dictionary project.
In 2011, he publishedThe Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon, a list of inheritedOld Indo-Aryan words along with theirProto-Indo-Iranian ancestor forms.
Alexander Lubotsky was born inMoscow,Russian SFSR. His father was the violinistMark Lubotsky. He studied linguistics at Lomonosov University (nowMoscow State University) between 1973 and 1976, thenIndo-Iranian languages atLeiden University from 1976 to 1980. He earned a BA in Indo-Iranian in 1978, a MA in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics in 1980, then in PhD in Linguistics from Leiden in 1987, following a thesis on theNominal accentuation inSanskrit andIndo-European under the supervision ofRobert S. P. Beekes.[1][2] The thesis was published in 1988 under the titleThe System of Nominal Accentuation in Sanskrit and Proto-Indo-European.
Since 1999, he has been a full professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics atLeiden University.[1] Since 1992, he has been the editor-in-chief of theLeiden Studies in Indo-European series, the director of the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics since 2006, and a member of the editorial board ofBrill's studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics since 2008.[1][2]
Lubotsky is a member of theRoyal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003.[3] He has supervised the PhD dissertations ofMichiel de Vaan (2002),Sergei Starostin (honorary degree, 2005), andGuus Kroonen (2009).[1]
