MADAD CHOBANOV AND ONOMATOLOGICAL ISSUES

Abstract

The article examines the scientific work of academician Madad Chobanov, who is known as a well-known Turkologist and public figure, an outstanding linguist-scientist, onomastician, especially an anthroponymist and toponymist, especially his research work in the field of onomology, and the reviews written about these works. It is noted that Madad Chobanov successfully defended his candidate dissertation on the topic “Lexicon of Azerbaijani Dialects of the Bolnisi Region of the Georgian SSR” at the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences of Uzbekistan in Tashkent in 1973, and in the same year he was elected a teacher at the Azerbaijani department of the Tbilisi State Pedagogical Institute named after A. S. Pushkin. He worked at this institution of higher education, later renamed the Tbilisi State Pedagogical University named after S. S. Orbeliani, and now Ilia University, for exactly 21 years, until 1994, as a lecturer, associate professor, professor, deputy head of department, and head of department. Madad Chobanov successfully defended his doctoral dissertation on the topic "Fundamentals of Azerbaijani anthroponymy" at Baku State University in February 1992, was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philological Sciences, and was elected a professor in 1993. He has been continuing his scientific and pedagogical activities in Baku since 1994. He worked as vice-president of the "Futurologist" Continuous Education Complex, vice-rector of the Azerbaijan Futurology University, rector of the Azerbaijan Elite University, dean of the "Higher School Teachers" faculty at the Azerbaijan State Institute for Advanced Training and Retraining of Senior Pedagogical Personnel, and in 1996 was elected head of the "Languages" department at the Azerbaijan Higher Military School named after Heydar Aliyev - Azerbaijan Higher Naval School, and worked in that position with honor and dignity for many years. The article focuses on the works of only one of these scientists - the former head of the "Methodology of Teaching the Azerbaijani Language" department of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical University, Doctor of Philological Sciences, the late Professor Azizkhan Tanriverdi, which are well known to the scientific community, refers to his writings about academician Madad Chobanov, and briefly presents to the readers the services rendered by M. Chobanov in the field of onomology.