Professor Tamaz (Thomas V.) Gamkrelidze:

● Born in the city of Kutaisi, Georgia, October 23, 1929;

● Education: Graduated from the Tbilisi State University (the Oriental Department) as a Linguist, Orientalist, Culture Historian;

● Career: 

1953 – 1960:	Research worker, Institute of Linguistics, Georgian Academy of  Sciences;
1973:	Director of the Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences;
2000:	Honorary Director, Scientific Advisor and Head of the Learned Council, Tsereteli Institute of Oriental  Studies;
1960 – 1999:	Head of the Chair for Structural & Applied Linguistics, Tbilisi State University;
1999:	Head of the Chair for General & Applied Linguistics, Tbilisi State University;
2003 – 2005:	Academician-Secretary of the Department for Language & Literature, Georgian Academy of  Sciences;
2005:	President, «Georgian National Academy of Sciences»:
	52 Rustaveli ave,                   0108 Tbilisi, Georgia.                   Tel./Fax: (+995 32) 99-88-91                    E.mail: t.gamkrelidze@science.org.ge

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● 1971 – Honorary Member of the «Linguistic Society of America», Washington, D.C.;

● 1974 – Member of the Georgian Academy of Sciences (Academician), Tbilisi;

● 1979 – Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Boston;

● 1980 – Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy, London;

● 1983 – Korrespondierendes Mitglied der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien;

● 1984 – Member of the USSR (now Russian) Academy of Sciences (Academician), Moscow;

● 1986  – President  of the «Societas Linguistica Europaea»;  

● 1988 – Auswärtiges Mitglied der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Leipzig;

● 2006 – Foreign Associate of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, Washington D.C.;

● 2006 – Member of the Academia Europaea, London;

● 2006 – Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science (WAAS);

● 2007 – Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest;

● 2008 –  Foreign Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga;

● 2009 – Ordinary Member, Academia Scientiarum et Artium Europaea, Salzburg;

● 2009 – Honorary Member, «Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences» (AIPS), Bruxelles.

            Honorary Member of the «Indogermanische Gesellschaft», Federal Republic of  Germany.

Professor Thomas V. Gamkrelidze is Doctor honoris causa (Dr.h.c.) – Universities of Bonn (1994)
and Chicago (1995):

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Prizes & Awards:

Lenin-Prize (USSR, 1988), Alexander von Humboldt-Prize (Federal Republic of Germany, 1989),

Iv. Javakhishvili-Prize (Tbilisi State University, 1990):

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Professor Thomas V. Gamkrelidze was Collitz Professor at the Ohio State University Summer Institute of Linguistics of the Linguistic Society of America. He held a number of visiting professorships in Europe, Asia, and the United States.

As a world-wide recognition of Prof. Thomas V. Gamkrelidze's achievements in science & scholarship is considered his election as Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America (2006); Election to membership of NAS is "one of the highest honors that can be accorded to a scientist and recognizes his distinguished and continuing achievements in original research";
(http://nrc88.nas.edu):
                               

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  Professor Thomas V.Gamkrelidze was Member of the Supreme Soviet of the USSR (1985 – 1990),
of the Supreme Council of the Republic of Georgia (1990 – 1991), and Member of the Georgian Parliament (1992 – 1995, 1995 – 1998; 1998 – 2003); Tbilisi Honorary Citizen (2000).

On October 23, 2009, GNAS has celebrated the 80th Birthday of its President – Academician Thomas V. Gamkrelidze.

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 Major Publications:

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, “The Akkado-Hittite Syllabary  and  the Problem of  the Origin of  the Hittite Script” («Archiv Orientální», 1961, 29/3);

 Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Sibilant Correspondences and the Problem of the Ancient Structure of the Kartvelian Languages, Tbilisi 1961: «Tbilisi University Press» (in Georgian);

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, “A typology of Common Kartvelian” ● «LANGUAGE» 42, 1966;

Т.В. Гамкрелидзе,  Современная диахрони- ческая лингвистика и картвельские языки

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«ВОПРОСЫ ЯЗЫКОЗНАНИЯ»

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 Т.В.Гамкрелидзе, Лингвистическая типология и реконструкция системы индоевропейских смычных (соавтор: Вяч. Вс. Иванов): «Конференция по Сравнительно-Исторической
Грамматике Индоевропейских Языков». Предварительные Материалы, Москва 1972;

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Sprachtypologie und die indoeuro­päischen Verschlüsse
(co-author: Vjacheslav V.  Ivanov): «PHONETICA» 1973;

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, "The Problem of “l’arbitraire du signe"  ● «LANGUAGE» 50, 1974;

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Phonological typology and the hierarchical relations among phonemic units («UNIVERSALS of HUMAN LANGUAGE», II: Phonology, ed. by J.H.Greenberg – C.A.Ferguson – E.A.Moravcsik, Stanford 1978); cf. «LINGUA» 35, 1975;

 Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, “Sonantensystem und Ablaut in den Kartvelsprachen” («Günter Narr-Verlag», Tübingen, 1982): co-author – Givi Machavariani;

Т.В. Гамкрелидзе, “Индоевропейский язык и индоевропейцы”. Реконструкция и историко-типологический анализ праязыка и протокультуры, тт. I/II, с предисловием Р.О. Якобсона, Тбилиси 1984 (в соавторстве с Вяч. Вс. Ивановым);

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze & V.V. Ivanov, «The Early History of Indo-European Languages»

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SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

March 1990

«Indo-European and the Indo-Europeans». A Reconstruction and Historical Analysis of a Proto-Language and a Proto-Culture, 2 vols. English version by Johanna Nichols, with a Preface by Roman Jakobson (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin - New York, 1994/95): co-author – Vjacheslav V. Ivanov;
 

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, “Alphabetic Writing and the Old Georgian Script. A Typology and Provenience   of Alphabetic Writing Systems” («Caravan Books», Delmar, New York, 1994);

Thomas  V. Gamkrelidze, Selected Writings in Kartvelology, Tbilisi 2000: «Tbilisi University Press» (with a Bibliography and an Introductory Article  about the Author);
 

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Selected Writings: Linguistic Sign, Typology, and Language Reconstruction («Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft», Innsbruck 2006), with Selected Bibliography and an Introductory Article by Rüdiger Schmitt;

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze et al., «A Course in Theoretical Linguistics» (in Georgian), Tbilisi 2003: («Tbilisi University Press»); 2nd ed., Tbilisi 2008: «Tbilisi University Press»;
 

Thomas V. Gamkrelidze, Language and the Linguistic Sign (in Georgian). Tbilisi 2008: «Georgian National Academy Press»;

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On the Ecology of Culture («Bulletin of the Georgian National Academy of  Sciences» – «BNAS», 2007, №1, pp. 153-155);

 Typology of Writing and the Origin of Alphabetic Script («BNAS», 2007, №2, pp. 152-162);

            The “Principle of Complementarity” and the Nature of Linguistic Sign   («BNAS», 2007, №3, pp. 153-160);

            The Indo-European Glottalic Theory: A New Paradigm in Indo-European Comparative Linguistics («BNAS», 2008, №1, pp. 140-143);   

            Kartvelian and Indo-European: A Typological Comparison of Reconstructed Linguistic Systems («BNAS», 2008, №2, pp. 154-160);

The Problem of the Origin of the Hittite Cuneiform («BNAS», 2008, №3, pp. 169 – 174); 

«Paradigms» in Linguistics and the Problem of the Isomorphism between the Genetic Code & Semiotic Systems («BNAS», 2009, №2, pp. 194-197) Dedicated to the 80th Birthday of my
                                                                                      friend & colleague Vyacheslav V. Ivanov,
                                                                                      an eminent scholar of our time – Linguist,
                                                                                     Semiotician, Culture Historian.

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