Linguist Vyacheslav Ivanov died

In the 89th year of his life, academician Vyacheslav Ivanov, Soviet and Russian linguist, Semiotik, anthropologist, died. This was reported on her Facebook by journalist Masha Slonim.

“Terrible news! Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov died. (Coma), ”wrote Slonim.

Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov - one of the founders of the Moscow School of Comparativeness. Professor of the department of Slavic and East European languages ​​and literature of the University of California. Foreign Member of the American Linguistic Society (1968), the British Academy (1977), the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (1993), American Philosophical Society (1994); Acting member of the RAEN (1991).

In 1958, he was fired from Moscow State University for disagreement with an official assessment of Boris Pasternak’s novel “Doctor Zhivago” and for supporting the views of Roman Jacobson. The decision to dismiss was officially canceled as erroneous in 1988.