Nikolai Marr
✶January 6, 1865
†December 20, 1934
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✶January 6, 1865
†December 20, 1934
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Nikolai Yakovlevich Marr was a Georgian-born historian and linguist who gained a reputation as a scholar of the Caucasus during the 1910s before embarking on his "Japhetic theory" on the origin of language, now considered as pseudo-scientific, and related speculative linguistic hypotheses.
Georgian ethnologist and linguist (1864–1934)
Biography from the article Nikolai Marr on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.