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Anatoly Liberman (Template:Lang-ru; born March 10, 1937, Leningrad) is a linguist, medievalist, etymologist, poet, translator of poetry (mainly from and into Russian), and literary critic.

Liberman's best-known works are in Germanic historical phonetics, English etymology, mythology/folklore, the history of philology, and poetic translation. He is a professor in the Department of German, Scandinavian and Dutch at the University of Minnesota, where since 1975 he has taught courses on the history of all the Germanic languages and literatures, folklore, mythology, lexicography, European structuralism, and Russian formalism. His blog “The Oxford Etymologist” is read in many countries.

For years he has been an active advocate of spelling reform.


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