Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze
Tamas Gamqrelidse (Georgian თამაზ გამყრელიძე; Russian Тамаз Валерианович Гамкрелидзе ) ( born October 23, 1929 in Kutaisi ) is a Georgian linguist and orientalist. He is since 1973 director of the Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies of the Georgian Academy of Sciences. Since 1974 he has been President of the Academy in 2005 and Academician since February.
Life
In 1952 he completed a Oriental Studies at the State University of Tbilisi. In 1963 he received his doctorate in 1964 he completed his habilitation there. In 1966 he obtained the chair of structural and applied linguistics.
He has written books on Indo-European and ancient languages , theoretical, structural and applied linguistics, as well as Kartwelistik. From 1988 to 1995 he was editor of the Notices issued by the Russian Academy of Sciences journal Voprosy Jasykosnanija ( Вопросы языкознания ). He is a foreign honorary member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, corresponding member of the British Academy, a Fellow of the European Society of Linguistics (1986-1988 its chairman ), corresponding member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, the Saxon Academy of Sciences, Honorary Doctor of the Rheinische Friedrich- Wilhelms- University and the University of Chicago.
From 1992 to 2005 Gamqrelidse was a member of the Georgian parliament.
1988, the Lenin Prize of the USSR, he was awarded in 1989 the Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation and in 1992 the Ivane Javakhishvili - Prize of the Tbilisi State University.
He is the brother of the mathematician Rewas Gamqrelidse.
Research
Gamkrelidze set ( with Ivanov, see " Materials") for a new hypothesis for the original homeland of the Indo-Europeans, namely south of the Caucasus, which, however, has found little trailer. The same applies to the view expressed by him Glottaltheorie the structure of the Indo-European vowel system, but at least in standard works such as Mayrhofer (2004) has been described, however, in Meier - Brügger (2010 ) received only a short paragraph.
Works
- Anatolian languages and the Problem of Indo-European migration to Asia Minor. In: Studies in General and Oriental Linguistics, Tokyo, 1970
- Alphabetic writing and the old Georgian script. Caravan Books, New York, 1994
- Indo -european language and Indoeuropeans. vol. I-II, Berlin / New York, 1994-1995 ( with Vyacheslav Ivanov Vsyevolodovitch, original in Russian, Tbilisi 1984)