Вячеслав Иванов: Филолог, тіл білімі және ежелгі тілдер зерттеушісі

Russian philologist (1929–2017)

Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов , 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet/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.

Vyacheslav Ivanov's father was Vsevolod Ivanov, one of the most prominent Soviet writers. His mother was an actress who worked in the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold. His childhood was clouded by disease and war, especially in Tashkent. Ivanov was educated at Moscow University and worked there until 1958, when he was fired on account of his sympathy with Boris Pasternak and Roman Jakobson. By that time, he had made some important contributions to Indo European studies and became one of the leading authorities on the Hittite language.

During the early 1960s, Ivanov was one of the first Soviet scholars to take a keen interest in the development of semiotics. He worked with Vladimir Toporov on several linguistic monographs, including an outline of Sanskrit. In 1962 he joined Toporov and Juri Lotman in establishing the Tartu Moscow Semiotic School. During the 1970s Ivanov worked with Tamaz Gamkrelidze on a new theory about the Indo European phonetic system: the famous Glottalic theory. These two academics worked together also on a new theory of Indo European migrations, during the 1980s, which was most recently advocated by them in Indo European and Indo Europeans (1995).

In 1965 Ivanov edited, wrote extensive scholarly comments, and published the first Russian edition of previously unpublished "Psychology of Art" by Lev Vygotsky (the work written in the first half of the 1920s). The second, extended and corrected edition of the book came out in 1968 and included another Vygotsky's unpublished work, his treatise on Shakespeare's Hamlet (written in 1915 1916). The first edition of the book was subsequently translated into English by Scripta Technica Inc. and released by MIT Press in 1971.

Sanskrit. Moscow: Nauka Pub. House, Central Dept. of Oriental Literature, 1968. Borozdy i mezhi. Letchworth: Bradda Books, 1971. 351 p.
with Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, Indoevropjskij jazyk i indoevropejcy: Rekonstrukcija i istoriko tipologieskij analiz prajazyka i protokultury. Tiflis: Tiflis University Press 1984. xcvi + 1328 p.
English translation: Indo European and the Indo Europeans: A reconstruction and historical analysis of a proto language and a proto culture. 2 vols. Trans. J. Nichols. Berlin–New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 1: 1994, 2: 1995
with T. V. Gamkrelidze, “The ancient Near East and the Indo European question: Temporal and territorial characteristics of Proto Indo European based on linguistic and historico cultural data”, Journal of Indo European Studies vol. 13, no. 1–2 (1985): 3–48. with T. V. Gamkrelidze, “The migrations of tribes speaking Indo European dialects from their original homeland in the Near East to their historical habitations in Eurasia”, Journal of Indo European Studies vol. 13, no. 1–2 (1985): 9–91. Vyacheslav V. Ivanov and Thomas Gamkrelidze, “The Early History of Indo European Languages”, Scientific American vol. 262, no. 3 (March, 1990): 110 116. The archives of the Russian Orthodox Church of Alaska, Aleutian and Kuril Islands (1794—1912): An attempt at a multisemiotic society. Washington, 1996. The Russian orthodox church of Alaska and the Aleutian Islands and its relation to native American traditions — an attempt at a multicultural society, 1794—1912. Washington, D. C.: Library of Congress; U. S. G. P. O., 1997. (as editor) with Ilia Verkholantseva, eds., Speculum Slaviae Orientalis : Muscovy, Ruthenia and Lithuania in the late Middle Ages. Moscow: Novoe izdatel'stvo, 2005. (as editor), Issledovaniia po tipologii slavianskikh, baltiĭskikh i balkanskikh iazykov: preimushchestvenno v svete iazykovykh kontaktov [= Studies in the typology of Slavic, Baltic and Balkan languages: with primary reference to language contact]. St. Petersburg: Aleteĭia, 2013.
with V. N. Toporov, Mifologiia: statʹi dlia mifologicheskikh ėntsiklopediĭ. Moscow: IASK, Iazyki slavianskikh kulʹtur, 2014. Cultural historical theory and semiotics. In A. Yasnitsky, R. Van der Veer & M. Ferrari (Eds. ), The Cambridge handbook of cultural historical psychology (488 516). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014.