Zigmas Zinkevičius
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Zigmas Zinkevičius (4 January 1925 – 20 February 2018) was a Lithuanian academician, baltist, linguist, linguistic historian, dialectologist, politician, and the former Minister of Education and Science of Lithuania (1996–1998).[1][2] Zinkevičius authored over a hundred books, including the popular[3] six-volume "History of the Lithuanian language" (1984–1994), and over a thousand articles, both in Lithuanian and other languages.[4] He was an academician of the Lithuanian Catholic Academy of Science since 1991 and a full member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences from 1990 to 2011, when he became an emeritus member.[4][5]
Zigmas Zinkevičius | |
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Born | (1925-01-04)January 4, 1925 Juodausiai, Lithuania |
Died | February 20, 2018(2018-02-20) (aged 93) |
Nationality | Lithuanian |
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Known for | Linguistics, Baltistics, Dialectology, history of the Lithuanian language history of the study of the Lithuanian language, the historical grammar of the Lithuanian language, onomastics, recreation of Proto-Baltic |
Notable work | History of the Lithuanian language (6 vols., published in 1984–1994) |
Zinkevičius was a member of the editorial boards of the Lithuanian Language Society (Lietuvių kalbos draugija) and of the international periodicals "Baltistica [lt]" and "Lituanistica".[1] Zinkevičius created the theory about the three Lithuanian written languages at the beginning of Lithuanian writing.[5] During his 72-year academic career, he taught at Vilnius University for 45 years.[6] Zinkevičius was fluent in a number of languages, including English, German, Russian, Polish, Ukrainian, Belarusian and French.[7]