Anatoly Liberman, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Anatoly Liberman

Russian-American writer

Date of Birth: 10-Mar-1937

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Profession: writer, poet, university teacher, linguist, anglicist, etymologist

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Anatoly Liberman (Russian: ?????´??? ??´??????? ???????´?; born March 10, 1937) is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet, translator of poetry (mainly from and into Russian), and literary critic. Liberman is a professor in the Department of German, Nordic, Slavic and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, where since 1975 he has taught courses on the history of all the Germanic languages and literatures, folklore, mythology, lexicography, European structuralism and Russian formalism.
He has published works on Germanic historical phonetics, English etymology, mythology/folklore, the history of philology, and poetic translation.
He publishes a blog, "The Oxford Etymologist". He is an advocate of spelling reform.