Frederik Kortlandt

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Frederik Kortlandt
Utrecht
NationalityDutch
OccupationLinguist
Academic work
InstitutionsLeiden University
Main interestsIndo-European languages, historical linguistics

Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (born 19 June 1946) is a Dutch former professor of descriptive and comparative

Indo-Uralic
.

Biography

Kortlandt was born on 19 June 1946 in

the Leiden School of linguistics, which describes language in terms of a meme
or benign parasite.

Kortlandt holds five degrees from the University of Amsterdam:

  • B.A., 1967, Slavic Linguistics and Literature
  • B.A., 1967, mathematics and economics
  • M.A., 1969, Slavic linguistics
  • M.A., 1970, mathematical economics
  • Ph.D., 1972,
    mathematical linguistics[2]

He obtained his PhD under Carl Lodewijk Ebeling with a thesis titled: "Modelling the phoneme : new trends in East European phonemic theory".[2] Kortlandt was a professor of Slavic Languages at Leiden University between 1975 and 2011.[1]

Kortlandt has been a member of the

Spinozapremie laureate.[4] In 2007, he composed a version of Schleicher's fable, a story written in a hypothetical, reconstructed Proto-Indo-European
, which differs radically from all previous versions.

References

  1. ^ a b "Frederik Herman Henri Kortlandt (Frits)". Leiden University. Archived from the original on 23 July 2019.
  2. ^ a b "F.H.H. Kortlandt". University of Amsterdam. Archived from the original on 30 October 2020.
  3. ^ "Frits Kortlandt". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Archived from the original on 5 August 2020.
  4. ^ "NWO Spinoza Prize 1997". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 11 September 2014. Archived from the original on 27 June 2015. Retrieved 30 January 2016.

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