Alexander Lubotsky

Alexander Markovich "Sasha" Lubotsky (; born 16 April 1956), is a Russian-Dutch linguist and Indologist who specializes in the study of Indo-Iranian languages. He is the editor-in-chief of the Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary project.

In 2011, he published The Indo-Aryan Inherited Lexicon, a list of inherited Old Indo-Aryan words along with their Proto-Indo-Iranian ancestor forms.

Biography Alexander Lubotsky was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR. His father was the violinist Mark Lubotsky. He studied linguistics at Lomonosov University (now Moscow State University) between 1973 and 1976, then Indo-Iranian languages at Leiden University from 1976 to 1980. He earned a BA in Indo-Iranian in 1978, a MA in Comparative Indo-European Linguistics in 1980, then a PhD in Linguistics from Leiden in 1987, following a thesis on the Nominal accentuation in Sanskrit and Indo-European under the supervision of Robert S. P. Beekes. He has supervised the PhD dissertations of Michiel de Vaan (2002), Sergei Starostin (honorary degree, 2005), and Guus Kroonen (2009).