ANDREEV, Nikolaj Dmitrievič. Petrograd 16.2.1920 — 15.11.1997. Russian IE Linguist. Son of a soldier, himself participated in war against Finland in 1939-40 and in WW II 1941-45. Graduated 1952 Leningrad. Kand. filol. nauk 1956 (diss. on Germanistics), dr. filol. nauk 1967 (diss. on general Linguistics). In 1952-54 worked in Leningrad public library, 1955-59 taught at Oriental Faculty, 1959-65 in laboratory for automatic translation. From 1965 naučnyj sotrudnik at Instituta jazykoznanija, Leningrad. In the 1980s he proposed the Boreal theory, linking the IE, Uralic and Altaic languages and Korean. He was also interested in South-East Asian languages.
Publications: At least 140 items, i.al. Ranne-indoevropejskij prajazyk. 328 p. Lg. 1986.
Sources: Miliband 1995; *Russian Vikipedija, long article with photo.
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