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Vladimir I. Georgiev | |
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Владимир Георгиев | |
 Georgiev,c. 1980 | |
| Born | (1908-02-16)16 February 1908 |
| Died | 14 July 1986(1986-07-14) (aged 78) |
| Alma mater | Sofia University |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | linguistics,historical linguistics |
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Vladimir Ivanov Georgiev (Bulgarian: Владимир Иванов Георгиев; 16 February [O.S. 3 February] 1908 – 14 July 1986) was a Bulgarian linguist, philologist, and educational administrator.[1]
Vladimir Georgiev was born in theBulgarian village ofGabare (bg), nearByala Slatina and graduated inphilology atSofia University in 1930. He specialized in Indo-European, Slavic and general linguistics at theUniversity of Vienna (1933–1934), and later at the universities of Berlin (1935–1936), Florence (1939–1940) and Paris (1946–1947). Assistant Professor at Sofia University (1931–1941), Associated Professor (1936–1945), Professor (1945), head of the department of general and comparative-historical linguistics at the Faculty of History and Philology at Sofia University (1948–1974), Dean of the Faculty of Philology (1947–1948), Vice-Rector (1948–1951), Rector (1951–1956). Director of the Institute forBulgarian Academy of Sciences (1951–1957), Secretary of the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Art Studies (1956–1963), Vice-President of the Academy of Sciences (1959–1972), Director of the United Center for Language and Literature (from 1972). Chairman of the International Committee of Slavic Studies (1958–1963, since 1963 - Vice-President), President of the Bulgarian National Committee of Slavic Studies (since 1955). President of the International Association for the Study of Southeast Europe (1965–1967). Member of the Bureau of the Governing Board of the International Committee forMycenology. Chief. editor of the "Short Encyclopedia of Bulgaria" (1962–1969), an encyclopedia "AZ" (1974), "Encyclopedia of Bulgaria" (1978). Editor of the magazine "Balkan Linguistics." Academician (1952). Honorary Doctor of Humboldt University in Berlin (1960) and Charles University in Prague (1968). Corresponding Member of the French Academy of Sciences (1967), the Finnish Academy of Sciences (1966), Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig (1968), the Belgian Academy of Sciences (1971), Athens Academy of Sciences (1977).
In Balkan linguistics, Georgiev distinguishedThracian andDacian fromPhrygian[2] and also determined the location of Thracian andIllyrian among other Indo-European languages.[3] Based on a new application ofcomparative method, he established the existence of aPre-Greek Indo-European language, which he called "Pelasgian".[4][5] Georgiev is one of the first to contribute to the understanding of Minoan writing systems, especiallyLinear A. Georgiev's works were further developed by many scientists (Brandenstein, van Windekens,[6] Carnot, Merling, Haas etc.). He made multiple contributions to the field ofThracology, including a linguistic interpretation of an inscription discovered at the village of Kyolmen in the Shoumen district of northeasternBulgaria.[7][8] In the 1960s, Georgiev examined the names of the twenty-six largest rivers ofcentral andeastern Europe. He suggested that the names were reconstructible toProto-Indo-European and that theIndo-European homeland was delimited on the west by theRhine river and to the east by theDon river.[9]
He also proposed in 1962 that theEtruscan language was related toHittite,[10] a theory which is not accepted by scholars.
