Dr. Letas PALMAITIS
Balticist & Orientalist, Ethnologist
Cell. ph. +370 67746906, e-mail: [email protected]
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1. Introduction
2. POSITIONS AND GRANTS
3. Research work: Orientalistics, Indoeuropean and general linguistics,
Indoeuropean and Baltic linguistics, Prussology
4. Life programme: N.-Baltic boundary, Toponyms, Rurik, Experimental Prussian,
Documented novel about Ingermanland
5. Support
POSITIONS
1970 - 1972: Senior bibliographer of the Academic Library of Lithuania.
1972 - 1975: Senior editor at Encyclopaedia Publishers of Lithuania
1976 - 1980: Linguist fellow at the Chair for Oceanology at Tbilisi University
1981 - 1998: Senior research fellow at the Chair of Baltic Philology at Vilnius University
1998 - 2000: Director of European Institute for Dispersed Ethnic Minorities
2000: Director of European Projects at Lithuanian NGO Self-Development Institute
2001: Director of Baltic Projects at European Institute for Dispersed Ethnic Minorities
2007: Pensioned
GRANTS
1. Thyssen Foundation grant in 1990 for 1 month research work at J.-G. Herder Institute in Marburg, Germany.
2. Henrich Hertz Foundation 3 months scholarship in 1995 for a research work at Kiel University, Germany.