Frederik Kortlandt

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Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (June 19, 1946, Utrecht, The Netherlands) is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University. He is an expert on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in many other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as Indo-Uralic.

Kortlandt, along with George van Driem and a few other colleagues, is one of the proponents of 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

Kortlandt is also a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences and a Spinoza Prize laureate.

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NAME	Kortlandt, Frederik Herman Henri
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SHORT DESCRIPTION	Linguist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 19, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Utrecht, The Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH
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