| LC control no. | n 82024288 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Puhvel, Jaan |
| Other standard no. | 0000000110323100 108909529 Q1676768 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Birth date | 1932-01-24 |
| Place of birth | Tallinn (Estonia) |
| Field of activity | Comparative linguistics Mythology Hittite language |
| Affiliation | University of California, Los Angeles University of California, Los Angeles. Department of Classics |
| Profession or occupation | University and college faculty members College teachers |
| Found in | His Laryngeals and the Indo-European verb, 1960. His Analecta indoeuropaea, 1981: t.p. (Jaan Puhvel) p. 419 (b. 1932) English Wikipedia website, viewed Dec. 8, 2017: (Jaan Puhvel (born 24 January 1932, Tallinn) is an Estonian-American Indo-Europeanist. As a student of Georges Dumezil, he also specializes in comparative mythology. He is known for his Hittite Etymological Dictionary) UCLA Department of Classics WWW site, viewed August 20, 2021: faculty (Jaan Puhvel, Professor) <https://classics.ucla.edu/person/jaan-puhvel/> WWW Wikipedia entry, viewed August 27, 2021: (Jaan Puhvel; Professor Emeritus of Classical Linguistics, Indo-European Studies and Hittite; taught classical languages and comparative Indo-European linguistics at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1958. In 1965, appointed Professor of Indo-European Studies; founded the Center for the Study of Comparative Folklore and Mythology at UCLA in 1961; director of the Center for Research in Languages and Linguistics (1962-1967); Chair, Department of Classics, 1968-1975) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jaan_Puhvel> |
| Associated language | eng hit |
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