Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Studies (Emeritus) at Harvard University
Academic background
Education
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (Dr. habil.) University of Oslo (Ph.D.) University of Copenhagen (M.A.) University of Oslo (B.A.)
Alma mater
University of Oslo
Thesis
The Paikuli Inscription: Restoration and Interpretation. Pt.1: Restored Text and Translation (109 pp.). Pt.2: Introduction and Commentary (1981)
Academic work
Main interests
Iranian studies, linguistics
Notable works
The Spirit of Zoroastrianism An Introduction to Old Persian
Prods Oktor Skjærvø (sometimes written P.O. Skjaervo in English) is Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University,[1] where he succeeded Richard Frye as Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Studies.
Born in Steinkjer, Norway, Skjærvø is a hyperpolyglot, familiar with historical and living languages including Old Norse, Norwegian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Larestani, Kumzari, Bashkardi, Pashto, Yidgha, Yaghnobi, Munji, Old Khotanese, Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi, Manichean Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Khotanese, New Persian, Ossetic, Kurdish, Tokharian, Vedic, and Classical Sanskrit.
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ProdsOktorSkjærvø (sometimes written P.O. Skjaervo in English) is Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies in the Department of Near Eastern Languages and...
Sultanate inscriptions as well. An introduction to Old Persian (p. 149). ProdsOktorSkjærvø. Harvard University. 2003. Schmitt, Rüdiger (2014). Wörterbuch der...
era worshipped all these figures, especially Mithra and Anahita. ProdsOktorSkjærvø states Zoroastrianism is henotheistic, and "a dualistic and polytheistic...
Avestan Hymn to Mithra, Cambridge: University Press, pp. 185–186 ProdsOktorSkjaervo, Kāyānian, Encyclopædia Iranica Irannejad, A. Mani (2020), Kavis...
on his expeditions against the Romans. According to the historian ProdsOktorSkjærvø, Shapur was a "lukewarm Zoroastrian". During the reign of Shapur...
era worshiped all these figures, especially Mithra and Anahita. ProdsOktorSkjærvø states Zoroastrianism is henotheistic, and "a dualistic and polytheistic...
example, Jean Kellens gives an estimate of roughly 400 years, whereas ProdsOktorSkjaervo assumes that 300–500 years may separate Old and Young Avestan. Approximate...
c. AD 350, quoted in Translated Texts of Manicheism, compiled by ProdsOktorSkjærvø, p. 68. History of the Acta Archelai explained in the Introduction...
noteworthy as mowbed "high priest". According to the modern historian ProdsOktorSkjærvø, "In both Iranist and non-Iranist literature, there has been a tendency...
become the main religion in the empire. According to the Iranologist ProdsOktorSkjaervo, Hormizd was like his two predecessors, a "lukewarm Zoroastrian"...
enough to be classified as its own language. According to linguist ProdsOktorSkjaervo: "The Pashto area split into two dialect groups at a pre-literary...
enough to be classified as its own language. According to linguist ProdsOktorSkjaervo: "The Pashto area split into two dialect groups at a pre-literary...
period. Encyclopædia Iranica. Volume IX. 1999. ISBN 0-933273-35-5. ProdsOktorSkjaervo. Bardesanes. Encyclopædia Iranica. Volume III. Fasc. 7–8. ISBN 0-7100-9121-4...
ISBN 978-0521684941 Skjærvø, ProdsOktor (2005), An Introduction to Old Persian (PDF) (2nd ed.), Cambridge: Harvard Skjærvø, ProdsOktor (2006), "Iran, vi...
3/sup, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul Skjærvø, ProdOktor (2006), Old Avestan, fas.harvard.edu. Skjærvø, ProdOktor (2006), Introduction to Young Avestan...
priest Kartir was Ohrmazd mowbed, which for the Denkard, according to ProdsOktorSkjaervo, was "applied to people who revealed themselves as having the ability...
worshipped all these figures; especially the gods Mithra and Anahita. ProdsOktorSkjærvø states Zoroastrianism is henotheistic, and "a dualistic and polytheistic...
Great Britain and Ireland. His assistants included Jean Kellens and ProdsOktorSkjærvø. Helmut Humbach's research focussed on pre-Islamic languages and...
Helmut Humbach, ProdsOktorSkjaervo, 1983, The Sasanian Inscription of Paikuli Pt. 3,1, p. 120, Humbach, Helmut und Prods O. Skjaervo, Reichert, 1983...
attention and not liking it as a language by foreigners. Professor ProdsOktorSkjærvø states: "The Pashto area split into two dialect groups at a pre-literary...
considerable loan elements from Arabic and Parthian (Moshref 2001). Skjærvø, ProdsOktor (2006). "Iran, vi. Iranian languages and scripts". Encyclopædia Iranica...
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