Frederik Kortlandt

Frederik Herman Henri (Frits) Kortlandt (born June 19, 1946, Utrecht) is a professor of descriptive and comparative linguistics at Leiden University in the Netherlands. He writes on Baltic and Slavic languages, the Indo-European languages in general, and Proto-Indo-European, though he has also published studies of languages in other language families. He has also studied ways to associate language families into super-groups such as controversial Indo-Uralic.

Frederik Kortlandt
Frits Kortlandt
Born
Frederik Herman Henri

June 19, 1946
Utrecht
NationalityDutch
OccupationLinguist
Academic work
InstitutionsLeiden University
Main interestsIndo-European languages, historical linguistics

Biography

Kortlandt, along with George van Driem and a few other colleagues, is one of the proponents of the Leiden School of linguistics, which describes language in terms of a meme or benign parasite.

Kortlandt holds five degrees from the University of Amsterdam:

  • B.A., 1967, Slavic Linguistics and Literature
  • B.A., 1967, mathematics and economics
  • M.A., 1969, Slavic linguistics
  • M.A., 1970, mathematical economics
  • Ph.D., 1972, mathematical linguistics

Kortlandt has been a member of the Royal Dutch Academy of Sciences since 1986[1] and is a 1997 Spinozapremie laureate.[2] In 2007, he composed a version of Schleicher's fable, a story written in a hypothetical, reconstructed Proto-Indo-European, which differs radically from all previous versions.

References
  1. "Frits Kortlandt". Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences. Retrieved 17 July 2015.
  2. "NWO Spinoza Prize 1997". Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research. 11 September 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2016.
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