Education
He graduated from Leningrad University in 1938.
historian linguist translator armenologist
He graduated from Leningrad University in 1938.
His last name is occasionally spelled Diakonov. Diakonoff was brought up in Norway. In the same year he joined the staff of the Hermitage Museum in Leningrad (now Street St. Petersburg).
In 1949 he published a comprehensive study of Assyria, followed in 1956 by a monograph on Media.
Later on, he teamed up with the linguist Sergei Starostin to produce authoritative studies of the Caucasian, Afro-Asiatic, and Hurro-Urartian language families. Diakonoff was honored in 2003 with a volume published in his memory, edited by Lionel Bender, Gábor Takács, and David Appleyard.
In addition to articles on Afro-Asiatic languages, it contains a five-page list of his publications compiled by Takács. Dandamayev, Master of Arts, Mogens T. Larsen, and J. Nicholas Postgate (editors).
1982. Societies and Languages of the Ancient Near East: Studies in Honour of I.M. Diakonoff.
Warminster: Aris and Philipps. Bender, M. Lionel and Gábor Takács (editors). 2003. Selected Comparative-Historical Afrasian Linguistic Studies in Memory of Igor M. Diakonoff.
Munich: Lincom Europa.