[Ura-list] Dmitri Cygankin in memoriam

[Johanna Laakso]

(Thanks to Christian Pischlöger and Jeremy Bradley for composing the text.)

Sad news from Mordovia: оn November 21 Dmitri Cygankin passed away at the age of 98. 

Cygankin was born in 1925 in the village of Mokšalei, Saransk County, Mordovia. He graduated from the Mordvin Pedagogical Institute in 1954. In 1958, he defended his candidate’s thesis “The Šugurov dialect of the Erzya-Mordvin language” and in 1978 his doctoral thesis “The morphology of nouns (inflection and word formation) in Ersa dialects". He was appointed professor in 1979 and became an internationally renowned scholar of Mordvin. 

He carried out a wide range of research in the domains of phonetics, vocabulary, morphology, syntax, word formation, dialectology, toponymy, and the history of Mordvin. He was also known the author and creator of textbooks, teaching materials and manuals for schools and universities. In 1997, he was named an Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation. He was also head of the Erzya cultural society “Vaigel”. 

With Dmitri Cygankin, the Finno-Ugric World has lost one of its most esteemed and illustrious scholars.


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Univ.Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso
Universität Wien, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)
Abteilung Finno-Ugristik
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A-1090 Wien
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