Vladislav Illich-Svitych

Vladislav Illich-Svitych
Владислав Иллич-Свитыч
Born
Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych

(1934-09-12)12 September 1934
Kyiv, Soviet Union (now Ukraine)
Died22 August 1966(1966-08-22) (aged 31)
Shchyolkovo, Soviet Union (now Russia)
OccupationLinguist

Vladislav Markovich Illich-Svitych (Russian: Владисла́в Ма́ркович И́ллич-Сви́тыч, also transliterated as Illič-Svityč; 12 September 1934 – 22 August 1966) was a Soviet linguist and accentologist. He was a founding father of comparative Nostratic linguistics and the Moscow School of Comparative Linguistics.