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Jaan Puhvel

American-Estonian linguist

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born: 1932
died: 2026
age at death: 94
known for: linguist, mythographer, Indo-Europeanist

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Jaan Puhvel was an Estonian comparative linguist and comparative mythologist who specialised in Indo-European studies. Born in Estonia, Puhvel fled his country with his family in 1944 and eventually ended up in Canada. After gaining his Ph.D. in comparative linguistics at Harvard University, he became a professor of classical languages, Indo-European studies and Hittite at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

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