George Shevelov
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1908 – 2002
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Who was George Shevelov?
George Yurii Shevelov was a Slavic linguist, philologist, essayist, literary historian, and literary critic. A longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University, he challenged the prevailing notion of a unified East Slavic language from which Ukrainian, Belarusan and Russian later developed, instead proposing that these languages emerged independently from one another.
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- Born
- Dec 17, 1908
Kharkiv - Also known as
- George Yury Shevelov
- Nationality
- Ukraine
- Education
- PhD, Ukrainian Free University
Philology
(1946 - 1949)
- PhD, Ukrainian Free University
- Lived in
- New York
( - 2002/04/12)
- New York
- Died
- Apr 12, 2002
New York
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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