Gani Abdurahmonov

Gani Abdurahmonovich Abdurahmonov was born on 3 December 1925 in Fergana. He graduated from the Fergana State Pedagogical Institute in 1946 and began his academic and teaching career there. He defended his candidate’s dissertation in 1950 and a doctoral dissertation later, and held the rank of professor.

For many years he held senior posts in science and education. He headed a department and served as vice-rector at the Fergana Pedagogical Institute, ran a sector at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences (1958–1966), and from 1966 to 1971 was rector of the Fergana Pedagogical Institute.

From 1971 to 1978 he was minister of higher and secondary specialised education of Uzbekistan. He then led the Tashkent Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages (1978–1983) and the Tashkent State Pedagogical Institute (1983–1988). In 1990–1991 he chaired the Terminology Committee under the Cabinet of Ministers, in 1991–1997 he was chief researcher at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences, and he later became a professor at the Tashkent State Institute of Oriental Studies.

His main research dealt with the syntax of the complex sentence in modern literary Uzbek and with the development of national languages. He compiled several textbooks and manuals, among them works on historical grammar, Old Turkic and the Uzbek language; dictionaries were prepared under his supervision, and dozens of candidates and doctors of science trained under him.

In 2000 he was elected a full member (academician) of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan. He held the title Honoured Science Worker of Uzbekistan and was awarded the Shuhrat Medal.

Gani Abdurahmonov died in Tashkent on 25 April 2016, aged 90.