Vladimir Orel
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Vladimir Orel Владимир Орёл | |
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Born | Vladimir Emmanuilovich Oryol 9 February 1952 |
Died | 5 August 2007 | (aged 55)
Nationality | Russian |
Education | Moscow State University |
Known for | being a leading authority on the Albanian language |
Scientific career | |
Fields | historical linguistics, Albanology, etymology |
Vladimir Emmanuilovich Orël (Russian: Владимир Эммануилович Орëл;[1] 9 February 1952 – 5 August 2007) was a Russian linguist, professor, and etymologist.
Biography
At the
Between 1989 and 1990, he also taught historical linguistics at Moscow State University. After his emigration to Israel, he continued to teach at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem between 1991 and 1992. Later, he relocated to Tel Aviv University, where he taught in the Department of Classical Studies between 1992 and 1997, focusing on comparative linguistics, mythology and folklore, history, and philosophy. In 1994, he worked at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem when he was dedicated to the biblical studies, and the following two years acting as a visiting scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford. The last two years in Israel (1997–99) he spent at Bar-Ilan University.
Afterward, he went to
Work
He worked three decades as a professional research linguist. Orel's work encompassed extraordinary variety of interests: from
He has left behind about 200 articles and over two dozen reviews. Above all, however, are 6 monographs, four of which are etymological dictionaries (with the unassuming titles such as Handbook of Germanic Etymology actually hiding a full etymological dictionary). Finally, the third part of his Russian etymological dictionary (which was already termed as "new Vasmer") was unfinished due to his death.
His Albanian Etymological Dictionary (1998) is a useful overview of existing etymologies, and it well complements his A Concise Historical Grammar of Albanian (2000).
The monograph Phrygian Language (1997) summarizes the old/neo-Phrygian epigraphy, interpretation of all the known inscriptions until the 1990s and the corresponding grammatical comments.
Orel also dealt with the
He published the following monographs:
- together with Olga Stolbova, Hamito-Semitic Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill, 1995 (578 pp.)
- The Language of Phrygians. Ann Arbor: Caravan Books, 1997 (501 pp.)
- Albanian Etymological Dictionary. Leiden: Brill, 1998 (670 pp.)
- A Concise Historical Grammar of Albanian. Leiden: Brill, 2000 (350 pp.)
- Handbook of Germanic Etymology. Leiden: Brill, 2003 (700 pp.)
- Russian Etymological Dictionary. Vol. 1: A–J. Ed. Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Calgary: Octavia, 2007 (408 pp.)
- Russian Etymological Dictionary. Vol. 2: K–O. Ed. Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Calgary: Octavia, 2007 (395 pp.)
- Russian Etymological Dictionary. Vol. 3: P–S. Ed. Vitaly Shevoroshkin. Calgary: Octavia, 2008 (327 pp.)
- Russian Etymological Dictionary. Vol. 4: T–Ja. Ed. Cindy Drover-Davidson. Calgary: Theophania Publishing, 2011 (298 pp.)
References
- ^ "Orel, Vladimir E." Fichier d'Autorité International Virtuel.
- Blažek, Václav (2008). "In Memoriam:Vladimir Orel" (DOC) (in Czech).