Vyacheslav Ivanov (philologist)

Vyacheslav Ivanov
Вячеслав Иванов
Ivanov at the 6 Moscow International Book Festival, 2011
Born	Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (1929-08-21)21 August 1929 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	7 October 2017(2017-10-07) (aged 88) Los Angeles, California, United States
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	Soviet Union (1929–1991) → Russian (1991–2017)
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Occupations	Philologist semiotician linguist
Awards	Lenin Prize USSR State Prize
Scientific career
Fields	Philology semiotics linguistics
Institutions	Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia; University of California, Los Angeles, California; Stanford University, Stanford, California; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.

Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов [vʲɪtɕɪˈslaf ˈfsʲevələdəvʲɪtɕ ɪˈvanəf]; 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet and 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.