Robert Hetzron
Robert Herzog sitting third from right]]
Robert Hetzron, born Herzog (31 December 1938, Budapest – 12 August 1997, Santa Barbara, California), was a Hungarian-born linguist known for his work on the comparative study of Afro-Asiatic languages, as well as for his study of Cushitic and Ethiopian Semitic languages.[1]
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[edit] Biography
Born in Hungary, Hetzron studied at the University of Budapest. After the 1956 Uprising in Hungary, he moved to Vienna and then to Paris, where he studied with André Martinet and Joseph Tubiana. He received his M.A. degree at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem under the supervision of Hans Jakob Polotsky, and his Ph.D. at the University of California, Los Angeles under the supervision of Wolf Leslau. From 1969 and until his death he was professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara.[1]
[edit] Selected publications
[edit] Cushitic languages
- Hetzron, R. (1969). The Verbal System of Southern Agaw. Berkeley & Los Angeles: University of California Press. (Ph.D.-thesis)
[edit] Ethiopian Semitic languages
- Hetzron, R. (1972). Ethiopian Semitic: studies in classification. Manchester. ISBN 0-7190-1123-X.
- Hetzron, R. (1977). The Gunnän-Gurage Languages. Napoli: Istituto Orientale di Napoli.
- Hetzron, R. (1996). "The two futures in Central and Peripheral Western Gurage". In G. Hudson. Essays on Gurage language and culture: dedicated to Wolf Leslau on the occasion of his 90th birthday. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz. pp. 101–109.
- Chamora, B.; Hetzron, R.. Inor. Munich: Lincom Europa. ISBN 3-89586-977-5.
[edit] Comparative study of Semitic and Afroasiatic languages
- Hetzron, R. (1990). "Afroasiatic Languages". In B.Comrie. The World's major languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
- R.Hetzron, ed (1997). The Semitic languages. London: Routledge. ISBN 0-415-05767-1.
[edit] Commemoration
The 35th annual meeting of the North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics (NACAL 35, San Antonio, 2007), which was initiated by Robert Hetzron at Santa Barbara in 1972, is dedicated to his memory.
[edit] Notes
- ^ a b U. Siegbert et al., ed (2005). "Hetzron, Robert". Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. 2: D-Ha. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag. pp. 24–25.
[edit] References
- Gideon Goldenberg, "In memoriam Robert Hetzron", in: Aethiopica 2 (1999), pp. 198–200.
- Andrzej Zaborski (ed.), New data and new methods in Afroasiatic linguistics: Robert Hetzron in memoriam. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz 2001.
- Andrzej Zaborski, "Robert Hetzron (1938-1997): bibliography", in: New data and new methods ... (see above), pp. xi-xix.
[edit] External links
- NACAL - The North American Conference on Afroasiatic Linguistics
- An obituary by Grover Hudson.
