George Shevelov
George Shevelov | |
|---|---|
| Born | Russian: Yuri Vladimirovich Schneider 17 December 1908 |
| Died | 12 April 2002 (aged 93) |
| Other names | Yurii Sherekh, Hryhory Shevchuk, Šerech, Sherekh, Sher; Гр. Ш., Ю. Ш. |
| Known for | Linguist & literary historian of Ukrainian language |
| Scientific career | |
| Doctoral advisor | Leonid Bulakhovsky |
| Notable students | Oles Honchar |
George Shevelov (born Yuri Schneider, 17 December 1908 – 12 April 2002) was a Ukrainian 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.