Mark R.V. Southern

Mark Roderick Vendrell Southern (March 3, 1961 – March 15, 2006) was an Indo-Europeanist and professor of German and linguistics. His research and teaching interests spanned the fields of Linguistics, Classics, Literature, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion. He specialized in historical and Indo-European linguistics, language contact and sociolinguistics, Greek and Latin linguistics, the pre-Islamic Middle East, and Sanskrit. He also commanded so... more

Mark Roderick Vendrell Southern (March 3, 1961 – March 15, 2006) was an Indo-Europeanist and professor of German and linguistics. His research and teaching interests spanned the fields of Linguistics, Classics, Literature, Near Eastern Studies, and Religion. He specialized in historical and Indo-European linguistics, language contact and sociolinguistics, Greek and Latin linguistics, the pre-Islamic Middle East, and Sanskrit. He also commanded some competency in a wide range of languages, including Ancient Greek, Latin, Sanskrit, Hittite, Old Persian, Classical Armenian, Yiddish, Hebrew, Norse, Old English, Frisian, Old Saxon, Old Irish, Breton, German, French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Russian. Mark Southern was born in Cambridge, England on March 3, 1961 to Eric and Elda (Moore) Southern, and distinguished himself early as a prestigious King's Scholar at Eton College. He graduated from Balliol College, Oxford, with an Honors B.A. in Classics in 1983. From 1986 to 1989, he... less