# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/george-shevelov
# Generated: 2026-08-14T06:43:15.210Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/george-shevelov"
name: "George Shevelov"
slug: "george-shevelov"
description: "George Shevelov was a Ukrainian-American professor, linguist, philologist, essayist, literary historian, and literary critic. A longtime professor of Slavic philology at Columbia University, he challenged the prevailing notion of a unified East Slavic language from which Ukrainian, Belarusian and Russian later developed, instead proposing that these languages emerged independently from one another."
tagline: "Ukrainian writer, Slavist philologist, literary historian, critic, member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine (1908-2002)"
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gender: "male"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1908-12-17"
deathDate: "2002-04-12"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump