Vyacheslav Ivanov

Vyacheslav Ivanov studied at Philological Faculty of Moscow State University and Lomonosov Moscow State University. Training under Mikhaïl Peterson is recorded. Yulia Latynina, Vladimir Dybo and Igor Mel'čuk are recorded as having studied under Vyacheslav Ivanov. The recorded working language is Russian and English. The field of work recorded is linguistics, semiotics and anthropology. Employment is recorded with Stanford University, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences and Russian State University for the Humanities. Distinctions recorded are USSR State Prize, Lenin Prize, Order of Friendship and Order of Honour and Glory.

• Name — Vyacheslav Ivanov • Native Name — Вячеслав Иванов • Birth Name — Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov • Born — 21 August 1929 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union • Died — 7 October 2017 • Place of death — Los Angeles, California, United States • Field — * Philology • semiotics • linguistics • Workplaces — Moscow State University Russian State University for the Humanities University of California, Los Angeles Stanford University Yale University • Citizenship — Soviet Union, Russia • Education — Moscow State University • Occupation — * Philologist • semiotician • linguist • Awards — * Lenin Prize • USSR State Prize

Vyacheslav Ivanov's father was Vsevolod Ivanov, a prominent Soviet writer. His mother was an actress who worked in the theatre of Vsevolod Meyerhold. His childhood was clouded by disease and war, especially in Tashkent. Ivanov was educated at Moscow University and worked there until 1958, when he was fired on account of his sympathy with Boris Pasternak and Roman Jakobson. By that time, he had made some important contributions to Indo-European studies and became one of the leading authorities on the Hittite language.

• 1959–1961 — head of the Research Group for Machine Translation at the Institute of Computer Technology of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow • 1963–1989 — head of the Structural Typology Sector of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow • 1989–1993 — director of the All-Union Library of Foreign Literature in Moscow (VGBIL) • 1989–1995 — chair of the Department of Theory and History of World Culture of the Philosophical Faculty of Moscow State University • 1992–2017 — founding director of Moscow State University's Institute of World Culture • 2003–2017 — founding director of the Russian Anthropological School at the Russian State University for the Humanities in Moscow • from November 1991 — professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures and the Program of Indo-European Studies at University of California, Los Angeles; retired in 2015, distinguished research professor since then The member of the academies of sciences and learned societies: • the Russian Academy of Sciences • the American Academy of Arts and Sciences • the British Academy • the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts • the Latvian Academy of Sciences • the Linguistic Society of America • the American Philosophical Society He was elected a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 2000, and he has been a Foreign Fellow of the British Academy since 1977. Also, in 1989 he was elected to the Supreme Soviet of Russia, but left for the United States soon thereafter.

In 1965 Ivanov edited, wrote extensive scholarly comments, and published the first Russian edition of previously unpublished "Psychology of Art" by Lev Vygotsky (the work written in the first half of the 1920s). The second, extended and corrected edition of the book came out in 1968 and included another Vygotsky's unpublished work, his treatise on Shakespeare's Hamlet (written in 1915-1916). The first edition of the book was subsequently translated into English by Scripta Technica Inc. and released by MIT Press in 1971.

Vyacheslav Ivanov worked in linguistics, semiotics, anthropology, literary studies and historical linguistics. He was employed by Stanford University, Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Russian State University for the Humanities, University of California, Los Angeles and Philological Faculty of Moscow State University. He belonged to USSR Union of Writers, Russian Academy of Sciences, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, British Academy and American Philosophical Society.

Vyacheslav Ivanov is recorded as having received USSR State Prize, Lenin Prize and Order of Friendship.