David Neil MacKenzie
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David Neil MacKenzie | |
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Born | London, England, UK | 8 April 1926
Died | 13 October 2001 Bangor, Wales, UK | (aged 75)
Occupation | Linguist |
David Neil MacKenzie FBA (8 April 1926 – 13 October 2001) was a scholar of Iranian languages.
Biography
Neil MacKenzie (he never used his given first name to be distinguished with his namesake father, David)
At SOAS, MacKenzie was appointed Lecturer in Kurdish in 1955, a position that was extended to include all Iranian languages in 1961. He was promoted to Reader in 1965, a post he held until 1975 when he received an appointment as Chair of Oriental Philology at the University of Göttingen in Germany.
MacKenzie retired from that position in 1994 and settled in Bangor, North Wales. Upon his return to Britain, MacKenzie was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy. David Neil MacKenzie died on 13 October 2001 in Bangor, aged 75. He was survived by three sons and one daughter.
Academic achievements
Even though MacKenzie was an acknowledged authority on Kurdish and medieval
His Concise
In his obituary, MacKenzie is noted to have been "a polyglot whose linguistic knowledge was remarkable in both range and depth. Generally recognised as the world's leading authority on modern Kurdish and medieval Khwarezmian, he also made distinguished contributions to the study of many other Iranian languages, including Pashto, Pahlavi and Sogdian, at the same time displaying enviable competence in non-Iranian languages such as Arabic and Chinese."[2]
See also
- Iranian Studies
- List of Iranists
Bibliography
- ^ MACKENZIE, DAVID NEIL at Encyclopædia Iranica, by Desmond Durkin-Meisterernst
- ^ a b c Sims-Williams, Nicholas (22 October 2001), "Obituary: Professor D. N. MacKenzie", The Independent, London, archived from the original on 30 September 2007, retrieved 31 March 2007