Vyacheslav Ivanov (philologist)

Vyacheslav Ivanov
Вячеслав Иванов
Ivanov at the 6 Moscow International Book Festival, 2011
Born
Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov

(1929-08-21)21 August 1929
Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died7 October 2017(2017-10-07) (aged 88)
Los Angeles, California, United States
NationalityRussian
CitizenshipSoviet Union (1929–1991) → Russian (1991–2017)
Alma materMoscow State University
Occupations
  • Philologist
  • semiotician
  • linguist
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
  • Philology
  • semiotics
  • linguistics
Institutions

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.