Andrey Korolev | |
|---|---|
| Андрей Королёв | |
 Andrey Korolev | |
| Born | 7 July 1944 |
| Died | 16 July 1999 (aged 55) |
| Education | Moscow State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | |
| Workplaces | RAN Institute of Linguistics |
Academic advisors | Vitaly Shevoroshkin Viktoria Yartseva |
Notable students | Aleksey Kasyan |
Andrey Aleksandrovich Korolev (Russian: Андрей Александрович Королёв; 7 July 1944 – 16 July 1999) was a Soviet and Russian philologist, PhD, a scholar in Indo-European and Oriental studies. His main works concerned Celtic and Hittite and other languages of Asia Minor.
Born in a diplomatic family, he was a fluent speaker of English and German since he was a child. He worked at the department of Germanic and Celtic languages of the Institute of Linguistics (Russian Academy of Sciences) and taught at the Russian State University for the Humanities. Through his great learning and talent for languages he became one of the first Russian scholars in two particularly difficult disciplines of Indo-European studies, dedicating himself to the Celtic and ancient languages of Asia Minor. He was also an expert in the broader questions of Indo-European linguistics and culture. His best known books are “Drevnejšie pamjatniki irlandskogo jazyka” (Древнейшие памятники ирландского языка, The oldest monuments of the Irish language) (Moscow, 1984, 2nd ed. 2003), containing the full corpus of the Ogham inscriptions, known at that time, and “Vvedenie v keltologiju” (Введение в кельтлогию, Introduction to Celtic studies (in collaboration with Viktor Kalygin)) (Moscow 1989; 2nd ed. 2006).
Despite his position and the limited number of publications, in some scholars’ opinion,[who?] Korolev was one of the best experts in Indo-European linguistics not only in Russia, but also in the world.
