Igor M. Diakonoff

Because the profession of his father Djakonow lived in his youth for a time in Oslo. His mother was a trained medical doctor, but hardly worked in their profession. Djakonows older brother Mikhail was an expert of Iranian history and archeology.

Djakonow studied until 1938 at the University of Leningrad and was then a job at the Hermitage. Here he remained until 1941, when the German attack on the Soviet Union began. Djakonow fought against the Germans as well as in 1944 in Norway. After the war he worked 1946-1950 University of Leningrad on Sumer, Assyria and Media. He then returned to the Hermitage and wardort to 1959 curator of the cuneiform texts. His later work focused primarily on Afro- Asian, Caucasian and hurro - Urartian languages.

Djakonow could read several ancient oriental languages ​​in cuneiform writing and translated and published, among other legal texts. Along with Sergei Starostin Anatoljevich he showed in 1986 that the Hurrian and Urartian languages ​​are related to the Northeast Caucasian languages.

Works

Djakonow published two dozen books and hundreds of technical articles in several languages. Here is a selection of books that he has published in English, Russian and German:

  • Razvitie zemel'nykh otnosheniĭ v Assirii ( development of agricultural compounds in Assyria ), Leningrad, 1949
  • Istoriya Midii s drevneĭshikh vremen do kontsa IV veka do after penalties ( History of Media from prehistoric times to the end of the 4th century. BCE), Moscow and Leningrad, 1956
  • A Comparative Survey of the Hurrian and Urartean Languages, Moscow, 1957
  • E ` o pos Gil'gameshe ( " O vse videvshem " ) ( The Epic of Gilgamesh (About the one who saw everything ) ), Moscow and Leningrad, 1961
  • Semito - Hamitic Languages ​​: an Essay in Classification, Moscow, 1965
  • Hurrisch and Urartian, Munich, 1971
  • Parthian Economic Documents from Nisa, ed DN MacKenzie, 5 volumes, London, 1976-2002
  • Geographical Names According to Urartian Texts, Wiesbaden, 1981
  • Hurro - Urartian as to Eastern Caucasian Language, Munich, 1986 (together with Starostin )
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