Aleksandr Gryunberg-Tsvetinovich (Russian: Алекса́ндр Лео́нович Грю́нберг-Цветино́вич; 1 March 1930, Leningrad — 3 March 1995,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the List of cities and towns in Russia by population, second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. It is situated on the Neva, River Neva, at the head of the Gulf of Finland ...

) was a Russian

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources. It is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics with strong ties to etymology. Philology is also defined as the study of ...

specializing in

Indo-Iranian languages The Indo-Iranian languages (also known as Indo-Iranic languages or collectively the Aryan languages) constitute the largest branch of the Indo-European language family. They include over 300 languages, spoken by around 1.7 billion speakers ...

and especially the languages of

Afghanistan Afghanistan, officially the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central Asia and South Asia. It is bordered by Pakistan to the Durand Line, east and south, Iran to the Afghanistan–Iran borde ...

. He studied at the then Leningrad State University Iranian philology. His main fields of study were the grammatic descriptions of living Iranian languages, publication of texts, dictionaries and translation

Aleksandr Gryunberg-Tsvetinovich was the author of around 100 scientific publications.

Bibliography

* ''Очерк грамматики афганского языка (пашто). Л., 1987.'' * ''Афганистан: Языковая ситуация и языковая политика // Изв. АН СССР. Серия литературы и языка. Т. 47. 1988.'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Gryunberg-Tsetinovich, Aleksandr Russian orientalists 1930 births 1995 deaths Academic staff of Saint Petersburg State University Saint Petersburg State University alumni