Kazimieras Būga
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| Born | November 6, 1879 Pažiegė, Kovno Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | December 2, 1924 (aged 45) |
| Burial place | Kaunas, Lithuania |
| Nationality | Lithuanian |
| Occupation | linguist |
Kazimieras Būga (Lithuanian pronunciation: philologist. He was a professor of linguistics, who mainly worked on the Lithuanian language.
He was born at
Jan Niecisław Baudouin de Courtenay. He later moved to Königsberg to continue his studies under the direction of Adalbert Bezzenberger
. In 1914 he received a master's degree in linguistics.
His research on Lithuanian personal names led him into the study of place-names. From these he was able to determine that the homeland of the Lithuanians and other
Pripyat River. In addition, he studied the chronological sequence of Slavic loanwords in the Baltic languages
.
He also carried out a linguistic reconstruction of the names of the early princes of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and refuted the theories of their Slavic origin. This became the main thrust for the concept of the Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian (Didysis Lietuvių Kalbos Žodynas) in Lithuanian. He died in Königsberg, and was buried at Petrašiūnai Cemetery in Kaunas.
References
- Antanas Klimas (The University of Rochester), Kazimieras Būga and the Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian Archived 2021-07-22 at the Wayback Machine, Lituanus, Volume 27, No.4 - Winter 1981
- Kazimieras Būga, from the Encyclopedia Lituanica I-VI, Boston, 1970-1978, published in the Lithuanian Word by the Seimas Commission on Traditions and Heritage of Lituanistics
External links
- Academic Dictionary of Lithuanian language on internet Archived 2017-08-11 at the Wayback Machine
- Digitised card files for Būga's never-written etymological dictionary of Lithuanian
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