About Carl Lodewijk Ebeling
Lived 1924 – 2017 (aged 93). Carl Lodewijk Ebeling was a Dutch linguist and university teacher.
Carl Lodewijk Ebeling (8 February 1924 – 24 February 2017) was a Dutch linguist specializing in Slavic and Baltic languages. He was a professor at the University of Amsterdam from 1955 to 1985.
Biography Ebeling was born in Zaandam on 8 February 1924. He finished his in Slavic languages at the University of Amsterdam in 1947. He then moved to the United States and studied Slavic languages at Harvard University and obtained his PhD there under Roman Jakobson in 1950 with a thesis titled: The parts of the sentence in modern Russian: a structural analysis.
Ebeling returned to the Netherlands and from 1955 to 1960 he was professor of Slavic languages. He subsequently became professor of both Slavic and Baltic languages. He retired in 1985.
Ebeling was elected a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1979.
Ebeling died in Graft on 24 February 2017.
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