See Also: Marr, Nikolay (Yakovlevich)(encyclopedia)
Danilevsky, Nikolay (Yakovlevich)(encyclopedia)
Yakovlevich (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Malinovsky, Rodion (Yakovlevich)(encyclopedia)
Chaadayev, Pyotr (Yakovlevich)(encyclopedia)
Nikolay (as used in expressions)(encyclopedia)
Trubetskoy , Nikolay (Sergeyevich)(encyclopedia)
Semyonov, Nikolay (Nikolayevich)(encyclopedia)
Podgorny, Nikolay (Viktorovich)(encyclopedia)
Yezhov, Nikolay (Ivanovich)(encyclopedia)

Marr, Nikolay (Yakovlevich) (sh)




born Jan. 6, 1865, Kutaisi, Georgia, Russian Empire
died Dec. 20, 1934, Leningrad, Russia, U.S.S.R.

Russian linguist, archaeologist, and ethnographer.

A specialist in Caucasian languages, he published collections of literature in the Georgian and Armenian languages and tried to prove a relationship between the Caucasian and Afroasiatic languages and the Basque language. His theory that all languages evolved from one original language and that the creation of language was a class-related phenomenon was adopted as official Soviet linguistic doctrine until 1950, when Stalin denounced it.