Antanas Klimas

Antanas Klimas (Lithuanian pronunciation: [ɐnˈtaːnɐs ˈkʲlʲɪmɐs]; April 17, 1924 in Pelekonys–18 September 2016 in Brighton) was a prominent Lithuanian professor, onomastician and comparative linguist specializing in the relationships between Baltic, Slavic and Germanic language groups as well as the history of the Lithuanian language. He also created Lithuanian textbooks and dictionaries, was the editor for the language journal Lituanus, and published academic articles on Lithuanian and Indo-European linguistics. Klimas wrote more than 130 publications about linguistics and made significant contributions to the comparative linguistics of Baltic, Slavic and Germanic languages. He also researched Lithuanian anthroponymy, word formation, phonology and morphology.