Andrey Korolev, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Andrey Korolev

Russian linguist

Date of Birth: 07-Jul-1944

Place of Birth: Bern, canton of Bern, Switzerland

Date of Death: 16-Jul-1999

Profession: linguist

Nationality: Russia

Zodiac Sign: Cancer


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About Andrey Korolev

  • Andrey Aleksandrovich Korolev (Russian: ?????? ????????????? ???????; 1944, Bern – 1999, Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian philologist, PhD, a scholar in Indo-European and Oriental studies.
  • His main works concerned Celtic and Hittite and other languages of Asia Minor. Born in a diplomatic family, he was a fluent speaker of English and German since he was a child.
  • He worked at the department of Germanic and Celtic languages of the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences) and taught at the Russian State University for the Humanities.
  • Through his great learning and talent for languages he became one of the first Russian scholars in two particularly difficult disciplines of Indo-European studies, dedicating himself to the Celtic and ancient languages of Asia Minor.
  • He was also an expert in the broader questions of Indo-European linguistics and culture.
  • His best known books are “Drevnejšie pamjatniki irlandskogo jazyka” (?????????? ????????? ??????????? ?????, The oldest monuments of the Irish language) (Moscow, 1984, 2nd ed.
  • 2003), containing the full corpus of the Ogham inscriptions, known at that time, and “Vvedenie v keltologiju” (???????? ? ??????????, Introduction toCeltic studies (in collaboration with Viktor Kalygin)) (Moscow 1989; 2nd ed.
  • 2006). His modest position and the limited number of publications do not represent the true scope of Korolev, who was, in many scholars’ opinion, one of the best experts in Indo-European linguistics not only in Russia, but in the world as well.
  • The realization of his brilliant potential was impeded by the difficulties of life and his untimely death.

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