Luka, Sambir County, West Ukrainian People's Republic
Died
29 May 2006 (aged 87)
Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Nationality
Ukrainian
Citizenship
American
Occupation(s)
Academic, professor, historian, linguist, medievalist
Known for
First Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University, founder and first director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, founder of the journal Harvard Ukrainian Studies, founder of the Oriental Institute of the National Academy of Sciences in Kyiv, founder of the journal Skhidnyi svit (The Oriental World)
Title
Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University (1975)
Academic background
Education
Polish “First Gymnasium” of Ternopil’, University of Lviv, Shevchenko Scientific Society, Academy of Sciences of Ukraine in Kyiv, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Göttingen
Alma mater
University of Lviv, University of Göttingen, Harvard University
Academic advisors
Ivan Krypiakevych, Ahatanhel Yukhymovych Krymsky
Influences
Roman Jakobson, Viacheslav Lypynsky
Academic work
Era
20th century
Discipline
Medieval studies, Ukrainian history
Institutions
University of Hamburg, University of Washington, Harvard University
Main interests
Oriental, especially Turkic, sources for the history of Kyivan Rus'
Notable works
The Origin of Rus'
Omeljan Yosypovych Pritsak (Ukrainian: Омелян Йосипович Пріцак; 7 April 1919, Luka, Sambir County, West Ukrainian People's Republic – 29 May 2006, Boston) was the first Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University and the founder and first director (1973–1989) of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.[1]
^Woloschuk, Peter T. (11 June 2006). "Omeljan Pritsak, scholar of Ukrainian, Turkic studies, 87". Obituary. The Ukrainian Weekly. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
Eurasian Metrology and Numismatics in the Seventh to Eleventh Centuries, OmeljanPritsak". The Russian Review. 58 (2): 319–320. JSTOR 2679589. Hellie, Richard...
Mongolian appellation gergei (wife), a derivation also supported by OmeljanPritsak. It has also been proposed that the name may be Gothic, meaning "Greek...
elaborations during the 20th century by scholars such as Géza Fehér, OmeljanPritsak, Mosko Moskov and other scientists. Reconstructions vary slightly,...
Variorium, 1992. OmeljanPritsak. "The Khazar Kingdom's Conversion to Judaism." (Journal Article in Harvard Ukrainian Studies, 1978) OmeljanPritsak. "The Pre-Ashkenazic...
Aaron's son Joseph. In Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century, OmeljanPritsak dated this war to the early reign of Romanos I (i.e., the early 920s...
Þorsteinn who enriched himself in the lands of Rus' in memory of his son. OmeljanPritsak identifies this Þorsteinn with Þorsteinn, the former commander of a...
Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen considered the name to be of unknown origin. OmeljanPritsak derived the name from Turko-Mongolic word *öktem (strong, brave, imperious;...
England, was Ónæm's paternal nephew and thus Ragnvald's first cousin. OmeljanPritsak notes that Ragnvaldr appears to have died simultaneously with his father...
considered it a derivation from Turkic *Däŋiziq, meaning "little lake". OmeljanPritsak considered the reconstructed form deŋir + čig > deŋičig, with the meaning...
Origins of the Khazars. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1980. Norman Golb and OmeljanPritsak, Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell...
letopisnoj stat'e 1096 g." Archiv russkoj istorii. Vypusk 4, 1994. - 7-26 OmeljanPritsak, "An Arabic Text on the Trade Route of the Corporation of Ar-Rus in...
identify them as Romanians (variation of the exonym Vlach), while OmeljanPritsak argues that they were Cumans. Judith Jesch adds the possibility that...
considered a name with initial r- not of Altaic origin (example Ragnaris). OmeljanPritsak derived it from Old Turkic and considered it to be of composite form...
народів (in Ukrainian). Glagoslav Publications. ISBN 978-966-03-8155-1. OmeljanPritsak, "Rus'", in Medieval Scandinavia: An Encyclopedia Archived 26 April...
and Huldin by Marcellinus Comes. On the basis of the Latin variants, OmeljanPritsak and Otto J. Maenchen-Helfen argue that the name ended on -n, not the...
commander of the retinue [lid], the best of landholders. According to OmeljanPritsak, this Þorsteinn may have commanded the retinue of king Yaroslav I the...
"Glozel' khazare." Revue des Études Byzantines 12, 1937. Golb, Norman and OmeljanPritsak. Khazarian Hebrew Documents of the Tenth Century. Ithaca: Cornell Univ...
Ukrainian Orientalistics: Special Issue on Jewish Studies, Кyiv: NaUKMA OmeljanPritsak Center for Oriental Studies, 2011: 9–29. Rengstorf, Karl Heinrich....
formidable Göktürk Qağanate after its disintegration. According to OmeljanPritsak, the language of the Onoğur-Bulğar federation was to become the lingua...
or early 10th century. Some scholars, such as Mikhail Artamonov and OmeljanPritsak, have envisioned the rise of the Bulanids as a gradual or sudden coup...
that the name originally had h- in initial position (er < här, her). OmeljanPritsak derived the name from Turkic erän, irregular plural of ēr, meaning...
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