Aleksandras Vanagas

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Aleksandras Vanagas
Born
Aleksandras Vanagas

(1934-08-12)12 August 1934
Buivėnai, Kupiškis Volost, Lithuania
Died13 April 1995(1995-04-13) (aged 60)
Vilnius, Lithuania
Citizenship Lithuania
EducationPhD
Alma mater Vilnius University
OccupationLinguist
Years active1959-1995
Employer(s) Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vytautas Magnus University
Known forBaltic onomastics
Notable workEtymological Dictionary of the Lithuanian Hydronyms, Dictionary of the Lithuanian Surnames
Awards Lithuanian SSR State Award (1974), The Comandore Cross of the Gediminas' Order (1993)

Aleksandras Vanagas (August 12, 1934 - April 13, 1995) was Lithuanian linguist, one of the leading Lithuanian etymologists.

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Biography

Aleksandras Vanagas graduated Vilnius University (Lithuanian language and literature studies) in 1959. Since then till the death he worked in the Institute of the Lithuanian Language, was its director between 1990 and 1995. Also, since 1990 he taught in Vytautas Magnus University (was the head of the Lithuanian language department) and Vilnius Pedagogical University. Between 1990 and 1992 he was the head of the Commission of the Lithuanian Language. [1]

PhD since 1984, a member of the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences since 1990, a member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences since 1992. [1]

Works

The main research area of Aleksandras Vanagas was Baltic onomastics (hydronyms, toponyms, anthroponyms) and Baltic ethnogenesis. He guided many linguistic expeditions and collected onomastic data. Aleksandras Vanagas with his colleagues published the etymological dictionaries of the Lithuanian hydronyms and the Lithuanian surnames. [1]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 "Aleksandras Vanagas". Visuotinė lietuvių enciklopedija (in Lithuanian). Vol. 14. Vilnius: Mokslo ir enciklopedijų leidybos institutas. 2014. Retrieved 2020-12-20.
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