Viktor Zhivov
Viktor Markovich Zhivov (Template:Lang-ru; February 5, 1945 in Moscow – April 17, 2013 in Berkeley, California) was a Russian and American philologist, specializing on the history of Russian language. Zhivov was a professor at the Russian Language Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow and at the Department of Slavic and Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Berkeley.[1][2]
Viktor Zhivov was born in 1945 in Moscow in a Jewish family. His father was Mark Zhivov, an author and a translator. He graduated from Moscow State University and in 1977 obtained his Candidate of Sciences degree there for his thesis on Russian phonology.[3][4] Zhivov was a professor at Moscow State University and received there the degree of a Doctor of Science in 1992. In 2001, he retired from Moscow State University. Zhivov joined faculty of the University of California, Berkeley in 1995 and until his death had a double appointment: He was teaching at Berkeley half a year every year, and he spent the rest of his time in Moscow, where he was a Deputy Director of the Russian Language Institute.[2]
In 1982, Zhivov published a paper on the works of Maximus the Confessor, which is still highly cited. In 1994, he published a dictionary of sacred terms in Russian. Until his death, he was working on a monograph on the history of Russian language, which he almost completed.[2]
References
- ^ "Faculty". Department of Slavic and Languages and Literatures, UC Berkeley. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ^ a b c Иванов, Сергей. "Виктор Маркович Живов (1945-2013)" (in Russian). polit.ru. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ^ "Viktor Zhivov Passes Away in Berkeley". Russkiy Mir Foundation. Archived from the original on August 19, 2013. Retrieved 19 April 2013.
- ^ Иванов, Сергей; А. Молдован (2014). "Талант, ответственность и радость жизни". Novoye Literaturnoye Obozreniye (in Russian) (1).
