Prods Oktor Skjaervo (Norwegian: Prods Oktor Skjærvø) (born in Steinkjer, Norway) is Emeritus Professor of Iranian Studies at department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations in Harvard University, where he succeeded Richard Frye as Aga Khan Professor of Iranian Studies. He is a hyperpolyglot, familiar with both living and extinct languages including Old Norse, Norwegian, English, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Latin, Larestani, Kumzari, Bashkardi, Pashto, Yidgha, Yaghnobi, Munji, Old Khotanese, Avestan, Old Persian, Pahlavi, Manichean Middle Persian, Parthian, Sogdian, Khotanese, New Persian, Pashto, Ossetic, Kurdish, Tokharian, Vedic, and Classical Sanskrit.
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30 December 1944 (age 80)
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Zodiac | Capricorn |
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