Vyacheslav Ivanov (philologist)

Vyacheslav Ivanov
Vyacheslav Ivanov
Вячеслав Всеволодович Иванов
	Ivanov at the 6 Moscow International Book Festival, 2011
Born	Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov; 21 August 1929; Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Died	7 October 2017 (aged 88); Los Angeles, United States
Nationality	Russian
Citizenship	Soviet Union (1929–1991) → Russian (1991–2017)
Alma mater	Moscow State University
Occupation(s)	philology, semiotics, linguistics
Awards	Lenin Prize, the USSR State Prize
	Scientific career
Fields	philology, semiotics, linguistics
Institutions	Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia;; Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow, Russia;; University of California, Los Angeles, California;; Stanford University, Stanford, California;; Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut.;

Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov (Russian: Вячесла́в Все́володович Ива́нов [ɪˈvanəf], 21 August 1929 – 7 October 2017) was a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the Armenian Highlands and Lake Urmia.