Dr. Leonid Kogan

Department
Department of History and Philology of the Ancient Orient

Position
Assistant Professor, Senior Researcher

Academic degree
Ph.D. in Philology

Background

• Born in 1973 in Leningrad.
• 1996 - graduated from the Department of Semitology of St. Petersburg State University.
• Since 1996 - works at RSUH.
• Since 2002 - Chair of the Department of History and Philology of the Ancient Orient.
• 2001 - defended the dissertation “Names of Animals in Hebrew and Other Semitic Languages”.

Area of expertise

Historical grammar of the Akkadian language (primarily the early periods), comparative lexicography and etymology of Semitic languages, synchronous and diachronous description of modern South Arabian languages.