Thomas V. Gamkrelidze#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 2401 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2006 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GEORGIA |
Thomas V. Gamkrelidze passed away February 10, 2021.
Positions Held
- 2005 President of Georgian National Academy of Sciences
- 2003 - 2005 Academician-Secretary of the Department for Language & Literature, Georgian Academy of Sciences
- 2000 Honorary Director, Scientific Advisor and Head of the Learned Council, Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies
- 1999 Head of the Chair for General & Applied Linguistics, Tbilisi State University
- 1973 Director of the Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Georgian Academy of Sciences
- 1964 Professor of Tbilisi State University
- 1960 - 1999 Head of the Chair for Structural & Applied Linguistics, Tbilisi State University
- 1953 - 1960 Research worker, Institute of Linguistics, Georgian Academy of Sciences
Fields of Scholarship
- Indo-European linguistics
- Structural and applied linguistics
- Theoretical linguistics
- Kartvelology
- Ancient languages
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Honorary President of the Georgian National Academy of Sciences
- 2009 Honorary Member, «Académie Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences» (AIPS), Bruxelles
- 2008 Foreign Member of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Riga
- 2007 Honorary Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
- 2006 Foreign Associate of the United States National Academy of Sciences
- 2006 Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science
- 2006 Member of the Academia Europaea
- 1990 Ivane Javakhishvili Prize of the Georgian Academy of Sciences
- 1989 Humboldt International Prize
- Foreign Honorary Member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences
- Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy
- Fellow of the European Society of Linguistics
- Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences
- Academician of the Russian Academy of Science
- Honorary Member of the «Linguistic Society of America», Washington, D.C.
