Vadim Tsymburskiy

Vadim Leonidovich Tsymburskiy (February 17, 1957, in Lvov – March 23, 2009, in Moskva) was a Soviet and Russian philosopher, researcher of geographical politics, philologist, historian and linguist, Homeric Scholar, Etruscologist, Hittitologist, and political scientist.

Vadim Tsymburskiy's scientific interests included the ethnic and linguistic history of the Mediterranean Area in ancient times, the theory and history of geographical politics, issues of civilizational geo– and chronopolitics, the civilizational structure of the modern united world, and problems of analyzing the language of politics. Introduced the concept of limitrof into modern political science.

Biography

He had Polish roots; his grandfather served in the city of his birth after the end of the war in Germany.

In 1981 he graduated from the Philological Faculty of the Mikhail Lomonosov Moskva State University, Department of Classical Philology. From 1981 to 1985, he was a postgraduate student at the Department of Classical Philology at Moskva State University, then a research fellow at the Institute of the United States of America and Canada of the Academy of Sciences of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1986–1990). In 1987 he defended his philological dissertation on the Homeric Epic in light of Balkan toponymy and onomastics.

From 1990 to 1995, Tsymburskiy worked at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, and then, until the end of his life, at the Institute of Philosophy.

He died on March 23, 2009, from cancer.

Significance

Tsymburskiy was one of the founders of Russian theoretical political science, being the leading author and intellectual leader of the Polis Magazine in the 1990s.