Edkhyam Tenishev
Edkhyam Rakhimovich Tenishev (; ; April 25, 1921 – July 11, 2004) was a Soviet and Russian linguist who specialized in Turkic and Mongolic languages. He was a doctor of philology, a professor, and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences of the Soviet Union. He served as the head of the Department of Uralic and Altaic languages at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He was editor-in-chief of the journal Советская тюркология (Soviet Turcology) and of the multi-volume publication Сравнительно-историческая грамматика тюркских языков (Comparative-historical grammar of the Turkic languages). Biography Tenishev was born April 25, 1921, in Penza to Rakhim Mubinovich Tenishev and Amina Alimovna Tenishev, members of a prominent Tatar family. When he was 10, his parents relocated to Jalal-Abad, Kyrgyz SSR where he attended high school. In 1938 he began his academic career at the Russian University of Transport, where he focused on mathematics and published on Euler integrals. During the Second World War, Tenishev applied to fight at the front but was rejected due to poor eyesight and worked instead at a post office and at the radio center of a military factory. After the war he entered Leningrad State University's