Velizar Sadovski
Velizar Sadovski, born 1972, is Distinguished Research Fellow of the Austrian Academy of Sciences and Iranian Linguistics Group Leader of its Institute of Iranian Studies. Specialist in Indo-Iranian Philology, Comparative and Historical Indo-European Linguistics. Holder (since 2023) of the National Scientific Habilitation of Italy, Rank I: Professore Ordinario, in the field of Linguistica e Glottologia.
Austrian Habilitation (2010) as Dozent (Associate Professor) for Indo-European Studies. M.A. and PhD studies summa cum laude at the University of Vienna; teaching activity there since 2001. Employment at the Academy since 1998 and at its Institut für Iranistik since its foundation in 2003. From 2009 to 2011 Deputy Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies. In 2010 promotion to Senior Scientist, on 1.1.2022, after the 2021 reform, to Senior Research Associate, and since 2023 to Distinguished Research Fellow — the new top-rank research position at the Academy corresponding to the EU career level of Leading Researcher in the European Union’s Framework for Research Careers.
Main fields of research: Ancient Indo-Iranian languages and literatures (Avestan, Old Persian, Vedic Sanskrit); Indo-Iranian Linguistics, Poetics and Religious History; Comparative Indo-European Studies: word formation (derivation, composition); Greek, Latin, Byzantine and Slavic philology; syntax, stylistics and pragmatics of Indo-Iranian; Indo-European poetry and ritual.
Gonda Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Netherlands (2023).
Visiting Professor of Historical Linguistics and Philology (2005–) for long terms at the Universities of Bologna, Rome I (La Sapienza), Naples (L’Orientale), Verona (Italy), Leiden (Netherlands), Salzburg (Austria), Bochum, Cologne, Munich (Germany).
Invited lectures: Athens, Basel, Bergamo, Berlin, Bochum, Bologna, Bonn, Brno, Bucharest, Cambridge, Cagliari, Cologne, Copenhagen, Cracow, Delhi, Dushanbe, Erlangen, Faenza, Florence, Freiburg, Graz, Halle, Hamburg, Jena, Kyoto, Lausanne, Leiden, Liège, London, Mamaia, Marburg, Milan, Modena, Munich, Münster, Mycenae, Naples, Newcastle, Oslo, Palermo, Paris, Pleven, Poznań, Ravenna, Rome, Salamanca, Salzburg, San Marino, St. Petersburg, Siena, Sofia, Strasbourg, Tartu, Trapani, Uppsala, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Viterbo, Würzburg, Zürich.
DIRECTION OF PUBLICATION SERIES
– Grammatica Iranica, Vienna
– Multilingualism and the History of Knowledge, Vienna (with J.Braarvig, M.Geller, G.Selz)
– Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik and Iranische Onomastik, Vienna (with B.Fragner, F.Schwarz)
– Studien zur historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, Hamburg (with H.Bichlmeier)
– Indogermanische Textlinguistik, Poetik und Stilistik, Hamburg (with O.Panagl)
– Indo-Iranica et Orientalia, Milan (with A.Panaino)
– Ritual Texts & Contexts: Philology, Pragmatics, Cultural History, Oslo (with J.Braarvig)
– Leading Editor of the Lexicon of Iranian Personal Names, Vienna (with R.Schmitt, H.Eichner, B.Fragner)
BOARD MEMBER OF SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS
– Member of the Executive Committee, World Philology Union, 2023–
– Board Member (2021–) and Treasurer (2022–), World Philology Union
– Board Member, Society of Indo-European Studies/Idg.Gesellschaft, 2008–2012, 2014–2016
– Member of the Board of Directors, Italian Association for Central Asian & Caucasian Studies (ASIAC), 2020–
– Senior Associate Fellow, Norwegian Institute of Philology, 2019–
– Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft: Indian (2019–) & Iranian Studies Dpts. (2019–)
– Full Member, Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2016–
– Full Member, Società Italiana di Glottologia, 2013–
– Foreign Member, Italian Institute for Africa & the East (IsIAO), 2009–12,
– now Italian Institute for the Middle & Far East (IsMEO), 2012–
– Foreign Member, Zentrum Historische Sprachwissenschaften, University of Munich & BAW, 2009–
– Board Auditor, Societas Iranologica Europaea, 2007–. Member: 2003–
MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND INSTITUTIONS
– Scientific Board, Indo-Iranian Journal, Leiden, 2014–
– Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli: Sez. Linguistica (AION–L), Naples, 2015–
– Lumina, Genoa, 2016–
– Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, Milan, 2016–
– Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture: Council for Literary Translation & Jury of the Austrian State Award for literary translation, Vienna, 2016–
– Doctoral College, Joint PhD Programme in Philological, Literary, Historical & Cultural Studies, Universities of Cagliari, Edinburgh & Cracow, 2018–
– Quaderni di Domus Europa series, Rimini, 2018–
– Institut für Religion und Frieden, Vienna, 2018–
– CIRCSE, Università Cattolica, Milan, 2018–
– International Advisor, ERC Project Pre-Classical Anatolian Languages in Contact, Verona, 2019–23
– Wiener Offene Orientalistik, 2022–
– Digital Archive of Brief Notes & Iran Review, University of California, Irvine, 2022–
– Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus, 2024–
Phone: +43 1 51581 6509
Address: Senior Research Associate PD Dr. Velizar Sadovski
Institut für Iranistik
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Hollandstraße 11–13, 3. Stock
A–1020 Wien, Österreich
Universitätsdozent
Institut für Slawistik der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2-4/Hof 3 (Universitätscampus)
A-1090 Wien, Österreich
Austrian Habilitation (2010) as Dozent (Associate Professor) for Indo-European Studies. M.A. and PhD studies summa cum laude at the University of Vienna; teaching activity there since 2001. Employment at the Academy since 1998 and at its Institut für Iranistik since its foundation in 2003. From 2009 to 2011 Deputy Director of the Institute of Iranian Studies. In 2010 promotion to Senior Scientist, on 1.1.2022, after the 2021 reform, to Senior Research Associate, and since 2023 to Distinguished Research Fellow — the new top-rank research position at the Academy corresponding to the EU career level of Leading Researcher in the European Union’s Framework for Research Careers.
Main fields of research: Ancient Indo-Iranian languages and literatures (Avestan, Old Persian, Vedic Sanskrit); Indo-Iranian Linguistics, Poetics and Religious History; Comparative Indo-European Studies: word formation (derivation, composition); Greek, Latin, Byzantine and Slavic philology; syntax, stylistics and pragmatics of Indo-Iranian; Indo-European poetry and ritual.
Gonda Fellow of the Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts of the Netherlands (2023).
Visiting Professor of Historical Linguistics and Philology (2005–) for long terms at the Universities of Bologna, Rome I (La Sapienza), Naples (L’Orientale), Verona (Italy), Leiden (Netherlands), Salzburg (Austria), Bochum, Cologne, Munich (Germany).
Invited lectures: Athens, Basel, Bergamo, Berlin, Bochum, Bologna, Bonn, Brno, Bucharest, Cambridge, Cagliari, Cologne, Copenhagen, Cracow, Delhi, Dushanbe, Erlangen, Faenza, Florence, Freiburg, Graz, Halle, Hamburg, Jena, Kyoto, Lausanne, Leiden, Liège, London, Mamaia, Marburg, Milan, Modena, Munich, Münster, Mycenae, Naples, Newcastle, Oslo, Palermo, Paris, Pleven, Poznań, Ravenna, Rome, Salamanca, Salzburg, San Marino, St. Petersburg, Siena, Sofia, Strasbourg, Tartu, Trapani, Uppsala, Venice, Verona, Vienna, Viterbo, Würzburg, Zürich.
DIRECTION OF PUBLICATION SERIES
– Grammatica Iranica, Vienna
– Multilingualism and the History of Knowledge, Vienna (with J.Braarvig, M.Geller, G.Selz)
– Veröffentlichungen zur Iranistik and Iranische Onomastik, Vienna (with B.Fragner, F.Schwarz)
– Studien zur historisch-vergleichenden Sprachwissenschaft, Hamburg (with H.Bichlmeier)
– Indogermanische Textlinguistik, Poetik und Stilistik, Hamburg (with O.Panagl)
– Indo-Iranica et Orientalia, Milan (with A.Panaino)
– Ritual Texts & Contexts: Philology, Pragmatics, Cultural History, Oslo (with J.Braarvig)
– Leading Editor of the Lexicon of Iranian Personal Names, Vienna (with R.Schmitt, H.Eichner, B.Fragner)
BOARD MEMBER OF SCHOLARLY ASSOCIATIONS
– Member of the Executive Committee, World Philology Union, 2023–
– Board Member (2021–) and Treasurer (2022–), World Philology Union
– Board Member, Society of Indo-European Studies/Idg.Gesellschaft, 2008–2012, 2014–2016
– Member of the Board of Directors, Italian Association for Central Asian & Caucasian Studies (ASIAC), 2020–
– Senior Associate Fellow, Norwegian Institute of Philology, 2019–
– Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft: Indian (2019–) & Iranian Studies Dpts. (2019–)
– Full Member, Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, 2016–
– Full Member, Società Italiana di Glottologia, 2013–
– Foreign Member, Italian Institute for Africa & the East (IsIAO), 2009–12,
– now Italian Institute for the Middle & Far East (IsMEO), 2012–
– Foreign Member, Zentrum Historische Sprachwissenschaften, University of Munich & BAW, 2009–
– Board Auditor, Societas Iranologica Europaea, 2007–. Member: 2003–
MEMBER OF SCIENTIFIC COMMITTEES OF ACADEMIC JOURNALS AND INSTITUTIONS
– Scientific Board, Indo-Iranian Journal, Leiden, 2014–
– Annali dell’Istituto Orientale di Napoli: Sez. Linguistica (AION–L), Naples, 2015–
– Lumina, Genoa, 2016–
– Atti del Sodalizio Glottologico Milanese, Milan, 2016–
– Austrian Federal Ministry of Culture: Council for Literary Translation & Jury of the Austrian State Award for literary translation, Vienna, 2016–
– Doctoral College, Joint PhD Programme in Philological, Literary, Historical & Cultural Studies, Universities of Cagliari, Edinburgh & Cracow, 2018–
– Quaderni di Domus Europa series, Rimini, 2018–
– Institut für Religion und Frieden, Vienna, 2018–
– CIRCSE, Università Cattolica, Milan, 2018–
– International Advisor, ERC Project Pre-Classical Anatolian Languages in Contact, Verona, 2019–23
– Wiener Offene Orientalistik, 2022–
– Digital Archive of Brief Notes & Iran Review, University of California, Irvine, 2022–
– Studies of Central Asia and the Caucasus, 2024–
Phone: +43 1 51581 6509
Address: Senior Research Associate PD Dr. Velizar Sadovski
Institut für Iranistik
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften
Hollandstraße 11–13, 3. Stock
A–1020 Wien, Österreich
Universitätsdozent
Institut für Slawistik der Universität Wien
Spitalgasse 2-4/Hof 3 (Universitätscampus)
A-1090 Wien, Österreich
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