TOPOROV, Vladimir Nikolaevič. Moscow 5.7.1928 — Moscow 5.12.2005. Russian Indologist and IE Linguist. Son of an official. Graduated 1951 from Moscow University (
student of M. N. Peterson). Kand. filol. nauk 1955. From 1954 naučnyj sotrudnik at Instituta slavjanovedenija AN SSSR in Moscow, 1960 staršij naučnyj sotrudnik. Hon. Dr. filol. nauk 1988, member of Soviet Academy of Sciences 1990. A specialist of Sanskrit and comparative IE linguistics. Married with Indologist T. Ja. Elizarenkova (1929–2007), two daughters. Is IE scholar he was also a Balticist.
Publications: At least 250 items, e.g. kand.diss. Lokativ v slavjanskih jazykah. 1-2. Manuscript of 770 p. M. 1955.
– Translated: Dhammapada. 159 p. Bibl. Buddh. 21. M. 1960.
– With V. V. Ivanov: Sanskrit. 133 p. M. 1960, English translation Sanskrit. 117 p. M. 1968; with T. Ja. Elizarenkova: Jazyk pali. 248 p. M. 1965.
– “K analizu neskol’kih poètičeskih tekstov (preimuščestvenno na nizših urovnjah). Ob odnom primere zvukovogo simvolizma (Rigveda X, 1, 5)”, Poetics. Warsaw 1966, 61-120; “Parallels to Ancient Indo-Iranian Social and Mythological Concepts”, Kuiper Vol. 1968, 108-120; “O brahmane: k istokam koncencii”, Problemy istorii jazykov i kul’tury narodov Indii. M. 1974, 20-74; “O metajazykov. Aspekte drevneind. poètiki”, Sanskrit i drevneind. kul’tura 2, M. 1979, 107-178; and other articles on Veda and Pāli.
– Articles on Burushaski: S. Hattori Vol. Tokyo 1970, 107-125; Travaux ling. de Prague 4, 1971, 107-125.
– Articles on Iranian and Indo-European, e.g. “Die Ursprünge der indoeuropäischen Poetik”, Poetica 13, 1981, 189-251.
– Puškin i Goldsmit v kontekste russkoj goldsmithiana (k postanovke voprosa). 222 p. Wiener slawistischer Almanach, Sonderband 29. Vienna 1992; other works on literature.
Sources: Miliband 1977, 1995; Wikipedia (more in *Russian version, with photo).