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Vyacheslav Ivanov

1929 - 2017

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Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов [vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈvanəf]; 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet and Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Vyacheslav Ivanov is the 172nd most popular linguist (down from 142nd in 2019), the 1,996th most popular biography from Russia (down from 1,737th in 2019) and the 11th most popular Russian Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 172 out of 214. Before him are Waldemar Rosenberger, Martí de Riquer i Morera, John Lyons, Andrey Zaliznyak, Göran Malmqvist, and Zellig Harris. After him are Henry Sweet, Henry Liddell, Gideon Toury, Robert Blust, Sergei Starostin, and Oswald Szemerényi.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1929, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 416. Before him are Nathalia Timberg, Audun Boysen, Velimir Valenta, Frans Andriessen, Acker Bilk, and Lode Wouters. After him are Daphne Hasenjäger, Michael D. Coe, Gerry Anderson, Igor Novikov, Saeed Jaffrey, and Kiichirō Furukawa. Among people deceased in 2017, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 419. Before him are Paavo Lonkila, Vinod Khanna, Catherine Hardy Lavender, Sotsha Dlamini, Curt Lowens, and Tullio Baraglia. After him are Pierluigi Chicca, Marina Popovich, Jared Martin, Joseph Bologna, Shyla Stylez, and Tore Eriksson.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 1,996 out of 3,761. Before him are Matvey Gusev (1826), Denis Menchov (1978), Afanasy Beloborodov (1903), Isaak Zelensky (1890), Sergei Slonimsky (1932), and Avdotia Istomina (1799). After him are Sergey Gorodetsky (1884), Elena Dementieva (1981), Anatoly Krutikov (1933), Aleksandr Ivanov (1928), Erast Garin (1902), and Vsevolod Vishnevsky (1900).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Vyacheslav Ivanov ranks 11. Before him are Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), and Andrey Zaliznyak (1935). After him are Sergei Starostin (1953), Ivan Kuratov (1839), Lev Shcherba (1880), Viktor Vinogradov (1894), Ivan Yakovlev (1848), and Dmitry Ushakov (1873).

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