Professor George Hewitt FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1997
- Subjects
- Linguistics
- Website
- http://georgehewitt.net/
Summary
George Hewitt retired in 2015 from SOAS, serving as Lecturer in Linguistics/Caucasian Languages (1988-1992), Reader in Caucasian Languages (1992-96), and finally Professor of Caucasian Languages (1996-2015). He previously lectured in Linguistics at Hull University (1981-88). Educated at Doncaster Grammar School (founded before 1350), he studied Classics at St. John's College (Cambridge), gaining his doctorate there following two years at Tbilisi University (Soviet Georgia) as a British Council exchange-postgraduate (1975-76, 1979-80). His publications address philological questions in Caucasian languages (principally Georgian and Abkhaz) and aspects of the Georgian-Abkhazian conflict. First president of the Societas Caucasologica Europaea (1986-90), he is Honorary Member of the International Circassian Academy and of Abkhazian Regional Academy of Sciences; he holds Abkhazia Order of Fame and Glory, a Medal of Abkhazia's Foreign Ministry, and a Medal of Abkhazia Defence Ministry. He is Abkhazia Honorary Consul in the UK.
Current post
Professor Emeritus of Caucasian Languages, SOAS, University of London
Past appointments
Soas, University Of London Emeritus Professor of Caucasian Languages
2017 -
Soas, University Of London Professor of Caucasian Languages, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
1996 - 2017
Soas, University Of London Lecturer in Linguistics/Caucasian Languages, Reader, Professor of Caucasian Languages
1988 - 1996
University of Hull Lecturer in Linguistics
1981 - 1988
Publications
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