Vladimir Toporov

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Vladimir Nikolayevich Toporov (Russian: Влади́мир Никола́евич Топоро́в; 5 July 1928, Moscow – 5 December 2005, Moscow) was a leading Russian philologist associated with the Tartu-Moscow semiotic school. His wife was Tatyana Elizarenkova.

Toporov authored more than 1500 works, including Akhmatova and Dante (1972), Towards the Reconstruction of the Indo-European Rite (1982), Aeneas: a Man of Destiny (1993), Myth. Rite. Symbol. Image (1995), Holiness and Saints in the Russian Spiritual Culture (1998), and Petersburg Text of Russian Literature (2003). He translated the Dhammapada into Russian and supervised the ongoing edition of the most complete vocabulary of the Prussian language to date (5 volumes).

Among Toporov's many honours were the USSR State Prize (1990), which he turned down to voice his protest against the repressive policies of the Soviet administration in Lithuania; the first ever Solzhenitsyn Prize (1998), and the Andrei Bely Prize for 2004. He was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences and many other scholarly societies.

External links

Sabaliauskas, Algirdas (2007), "Remembering Vladimir Toporov", Lituanus 53 (2)
(Russian) Obituary by the Russian Ministry of Culture

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 64055635 LCCN: n83232187 ISNI: 0000 0001 2136 4805 GND: 119049317 BNF: cb12213691h

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Name	Toporov, Vladimir
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Short description	Russian philologist
Date of birth	5 July 1928
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Date of death	5 December 2005
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