Yuri Knorozov
1922
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1999
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Soviet Union, Russia
native language: Russian
languages spoken, written or signed: Russian
educated at: Moscow State University, MSU Faculty of History, Kharkiv National University named for V.N. Karazin
occupation: anthropologist, linguist, archaeologist, historian, Egyptologist, mesoamericanist, ethnologist, ethnographer
award received: USSR State Prize, Medal "For the Victory over Germany in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", Commander of the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Medal "For Distinguished Labour", Order of the Quetzal
student of: Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev
official website: knorosov.com
Yuri Valentinovich Knorozov (Russian: Ю́рий Валенти́нович Кноро́зов; 19 November 1922 – 31 March 1999) was a Soviet and Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer. He became the founder of the Soviet school of Mayan studies, and his identification of the existence of syllabic signs proved an essential step forward in the eventual decipherment of the Mayan script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica. Source: Wikipedia (en)
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