Alexander Lubotsky


Alexander "Sasha" Lubotsky is a Russian linguist and Indologist.

Biography

Alexander Lubotsky was born on 16 April 1956 in Moscow, Russia. He earned a PhD in linguistics in 1987, following a thesis on the "Nominal accentuation in Sanskrit and Indo-European" under the supervision of Robert S. P. Beekes.
Since 1999, he has been a full professor of Comparative Indo-European Linguistics at Leiden University. He is the editor-in-chief of the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary, and a member of the editorial board of Brill's studies in Indo-European Languages & Linguistics.