Alexander Lubotsky

Alexander "Sasha" Lubotsky (Russian: Александр Лубоцкий; born 16 April 1956) is a Russian linguist and Indologist who specializes in the study of Indo-Iranian languages.[1][2] He is the editor-in-chief of the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project.

Not to be confused with Alexander Lubotzky.
Alexander Lubotsky
Александр Лубоцкий
Born (1956-04-16) 16 April 1956
Moscow, Russian SFSR
Academic background
EducationMoscow State University
Academic work
InstitutionsLeiden University

In 2011, he published The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon, a list of inherited Old Indo-Aryan words along with their Proto-Indo-Iranian ancestor forms.

Biography

Alexander Lubotsky was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR. He study linguistics at Lomonosov University (now Moscow State University) between 1973 and 1976, then Indo-Iranian languages at Leiden University from 1976 to 1980. He earned a BA in Indo-Iranian in 1978, a MA in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics in 1980, then in PhD in Linguistics from Leiden in 1987, following a thesis on the "Nominal accentuation in Sanskrit and Indo-European" under the supervision of Robert S. P. Beekes.[1][2]

Since 1999, he has been a full professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University.[1] Since 1992, he has been the editor-in-chief of the Leiden Studies in Indo-European series, the director of the Leiden Summer School in Languages and Linguistics since 2006, and a member of the editorial board of Brill's studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics since 2008.[1][2]

Lubotsky is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2003.[3] He has supervised the PhD dissertations of Michiel de Vaan (2002), Sergei Starostin (honorary degree, 2005) and Guus Kroonen (2009).[1]

References
  1. "Lubotsky, Alexander (Sasha) - Home of Dutch Studies". Dutch Studies on South Asia, Tibet and classical Southeast Asia (in Dutch). 2017. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  2. "Sasha Lubotsky". Leiden University. Retrieved 2020-04-18.
  3. "Sasha Lubotsky". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 28 September 2020.
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