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Paul Ariste (3 February 1905 – 2 February 1990) was an Estonian linguist renowned for his studies of the Finno-Ugric languages (especially Estonian and Votic), Yiddish[1] and Baltic Romani language.

He was born as Paul Berg, in Rääbise, Võtikvere Parish (now Jõgeva Parish), Kreis Dorpat, Governorate of Livonia, Russian Empire, but in 1927 Estonized his name to Ariste. He graduated from the University of Tartu and subsequently worked with it. Ariste wrote his M.A. thesis ("Eesti-rootsi laensõnad eesti keeles") on Swedish – viz. Estonian Swedish dialect – loanwords in Estonian, his doctoral thesis ("Hiiu murrete häälikud") treated the Hiiumaa dialect of Estonian language. From 1945 to 1946, Ariste was imprisoned by the Soviet authorities (for having been member of Veljesto, a student association in independent Estonia)[2]

Since 1927 Paul Ariste eagerly participated in activities of Estonian Folklore Archives, where he established collections of Jewish, Swedish and Romani folklore, and contributed a lot to collections of Finno-Baltic minorities and Old-Believers of Peipsi region.

He was the head of the Finno-Ugrian Department at the University of Tartu and one of the two most instrumental personalities in reviving Soviet Finno-Ugrian studies.[3][4] Ariste founded the journal Sovetskoye finnougrovedeniye (Советское финноугроведение; Soviet Finno-Ugric Studies, later renamed Linguistica Uralica).

He was also a notable Esperantist, and a member of the Academy of Esperanto between 1967 and 1976.[5] He was also listed in a year 2000 issue of the Esperanto magazine La Ondo among the 100 most eminent Esperantists.[6]

He died in Tartu, aged 84.

Notable students

• Lydia Vasikova, philologist

References

Further reading

• Ariste, Paul (1939). A quantitative language. Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Ghent. P. 276–280.
• Ariste, Paul (1953). Eesti keele foneetika [Phonetics of Estonian]. Tallinn: Eesti Riiklik Kirjastus.
• Ariste, Paul (1960). Vadjalaste laule. Tallinn.
• Ariste, Paul (1968). A Grammar of the Votic Language. Bloomington: Indiana University. ISBN 978-0-87750-024-7
• Ariste, Paul (1981). Keelekontaktid: Eesti keele kontakte teiste keeltega [Language contacts: Contacts of Estonian with other languages]. Tallinn: Valgus.
• Viitso, Tiit-Rein (2005). Paul Ariste 100. Linguistica Uralica No 1/2005, 1–3.
• Viitso, Tiit-Rein (2005). Some Comments about Paul Ariste's Doctoral Dissertation on Phonetics of Hiiumaa Estonian Dialects. Linguistica Uralica No 1/2005, 4-19.

Yiddish studies

• "Kalevipoja" juudikeelne tõlge (1926).Eesti kirjandus 4. Lk. 224–229.
• Etlexe jidiše folkslider in dem lider-repertuar fun di estn (1932). JIVO bleter 3, Z.148-157.
• Juut eesti rahvausus (1932). Eesti Kirjandus 1, Lk. 1-17; 3, Lk. 132–150; 5, Lk. 219–228.
• Juudi keel (1933). Kevadik 6, Lk. 74–76.
• Cu der hašpoe fun jidish ojf nit-idiše špraxn (1937). JIVO bleter 11, Z. 83–85.
• Ch. Lemchenas. Lietuvių kalbos įtaka Lietuvos žydų tarmei (1970). Baltistika. 6 (2), Psl. 250–252. [Review.]

External links

• Onga, Mare. Professor Paul Ariste biobibliograafia 1921-2000 = Professor Paul Ariste : Biobibliographie 1921-2000
• Linguistica Uralica
• Paul Ariste Centre for Indigenous Finno-Ugric Peoples
• Paul Ariste and the Veps Folklore by Kristi Salve

На других языках

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[de] Paul Ariste

Paul Ariste (bis 1927: Paul Berg, russisch Пауль Александрович Аристэ; * 3. Februar 1905 in Võtikvere, Landgemeinde Torma, Kreis Jõgeva; † 2. Februar 1990 in Tartu) war ein estnischer Sprachwissenschaftler.

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- [en] Paul Ariste

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[ru] Аристэ, Пауль Александрович

Па́уль Алекса́ндрович Аристэ (при рождении Берг, эст. Paul Ariste; 3 февраля 1905[1], Торма, Йыгевамаа — 2 февраля 1990[1], Тарту) — советский эстонский лингвист и этнограф, известный своими исследованиями финно-угорских языков (в особенности эстонского, водского и удмуртского), идиша[2] и цыганского языка. Почётный гражданин Тарту.

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