George Shevelov

George Shevelov
Юрій Шевелёв
Shevelov in 1998
Born
Yuri Vladimirovich Schneider

(1908-12-17)17 December 1908
Kharkov, Russian Empire
Died12 April 2002(2002-04-12) (aged 93)
Other namesYurii Sherekh, Hryhory Shevchuk, Šerech, Sherekh, Sher; Гр. Ш., Ю. Ш.
Known forLinguist & literary historian of Ukrainian language
Scientific career
Doctoral advisorLeonid Bulakhovsky
Notable studentsOles Honchar

George Shevelov (born Yuri Schneider, 17 December 1908 – 12 April 2002) was a Ukrainian-American professor, linguist, philologist, essayist, literary historian, and literary critic. A longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University, he challenged the prevailing notion of a unified East Slavic language from which Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian later developed, instead proposing that these languages emerged independently from one another.

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