Altay Sarsenuly Amanzholov

Altay Sarsenuly Amanzholov (Kazakh: Алтай Сәрсенұлы Аманжолов; born 1934 in Almaty, Kazakh SSR) is a Kazakh Turkologist. He followed his father Sarsen Amanzholov's steps continuing in this field of study.

Biography

He graduated in 1957 at the Eastern Languages Institute of Moscow State University, in Turkic philology. 1957-1960 and 1964-1966 at the Academy of Sciences, Kazakh SSR, 1966-1979 at lecturing in Kazakh language at the Kazakh State Women Pedagogical Institute. In 1975 he submitted his doctoral thesis on "Materials and research in the history of Old Turkic writing". 1979-1995 dean of the General Linguistics Faculty at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University

Amanzholov lectured for one year at the Karadeniz Technical University, Trabzon, Turkey, in 1993/1994. Since 1995, he is a full member of the Kazakhstan Academy of Humanities.

Publications

Amanzholov authored five monographs in Russian and Kazakh.

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