Alexander Vovin

Russian-American linguist (1961–2022) Alexander VovinАлександр ВовинBornAlexander Vladimirovich Vovin(1961-01-27)27 January 1961Leningrad, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union (present-day Saint Petersburg, Russia)Died8 April 2022(2022-04-08) (aged 61)Paris, FranceSpouse Sambi Ishisaki-Vovin ​ ​(m. 2000)​Children3Academic backgroundAlma materLeningrad State UniversityThesis (1987)Academic workInstitutionsSchool for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, Miami University, University of MichiganNotable studentsMarc Miyake Alexander Vladimirovich Vovin (Russian: Александр Владимирович Вовин; 27 January 1961 – 8 April 2022) was a Soviet-born Russian-American linguist and philologist, and director of studies at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS) in Paris, France. He was known for his research on East Asian languages. His main interest was in Japanese, but he studied many other languages and families, including Korean, Ainu, Tibetan, Mongolic, Tungusic, and Turkic. Education Vovin earned his M.A. in structural and applied linguistics from the Saint Petersburg State University in 1983,