Vyacheslav Vsevolodovich Ivanov was a prominent Soviet/Russian philologist, semiotician and Indo-Europeanist probably best known for his glottalic theory of Indo-European consonantism and for placing the Indo-European urheimat in the area of the... Wikipedia
Born: August 21, 1929, Moscow, Russia
Died: October 7, 2017 (age 88 years), Los Angeles, CA
Parents: Vsevolod Ivanov and Tamara Ivanova
Notable students: Andrey Zaliznyak, Vladimir Dybo, Boris Uspenskij, and more