What is Zigmas Zinkevičius?
[[Image:zinkevicius.jpg|thumb|Professor Zigmas Zinkevičius]] '''Zigmas Zinkevičius''' (January 4, 1925 in Juodausiai, [[Ukmergė district]] – February 20, 2018 in [[Vilnius]]) was a Lithuanian<ref>{{Cite book| title=Foreword to the Past: a Cultural History of the Baltic People |first=Endre |last=Bojtár |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5aoId7nA4bsC&pg=PA54 |page=54 | publisher=Central European University Press |year=1999 |isbn=963-9116-42-4}}</ref> linguist-historian, [[professor]] at [[Vilnius University]], and a full member of the [[Lithuanian Academy of Sciences]]. He has contributed to studies in the history of languages, [[onomastics]]<ref name=IPC>Švietimo informacijų technologijų centras. [https://web.archive.org/web/20031120230807/http://www.ipc.lt/wg/php/wg.php?zs=24&zn=58 Zigmas Zinkevičius]. Retrieved on 2008-08-18</ref> Zinkevičius was a recipient of the [[Herder Prize]], which was presented to him in 1994. Zinkevičius was the author of 30 academic books and several hundred scientific publications in various languages. ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Zinkevicius, Zigmas}} [[Category:1925 births]] [[Category:2018 deaths]] [[Category:Disease-related deaths in Lithuania]] [[Category:Deaths from heart failure]] [[Category:Lithuanian people]] [[Category:Historians]] [[Category:Lithuanian educators]] {{bio-stub}}