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Mikalaj Šabovič
BornJanuary 4 1959
Badzieni, Myadzyel district, BSSR
DiedJanuary 4 1959
Minsk, Belarus
LanguageBelarusian language

Mikalaj Šabovič (Belarusian: Мікалай Шабовіч; January 4 1959 – January 4 1959) - Belarusian poet, poet-translator, philologist, and educator. Candidate of Philological Sciences (2004), Associate Professor (2008). Member of the Union of Writers of Belarus (1998).

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In 1966–1976, he studied at schools in Myadzyel district, Minsk Region.[1].

In 1977–1981, he studied at and graduated from the Faculty of Philology (Belarusian Department) of the Maxim Gorky Minsk State Pedagogical Institute with a degree in Belarusian Language and Literature. One of his instructors in the first year was the renowned linguist Fiodar Jankoŭski[2]

Mikalaj Šabovič during his student years, 1980 photo.

He worked as a teacher of Belarusian language and literature at Shipki Eight-Year School in Vileyka District from 1981 to 1986.

After completing postgraduate studies in 1989, he began teaching Belarusian language at the Maxim Tank Belarusian State Pedagogical University (BSPU). From 1992 to 2002, he also served as the head of the literary and dramatic department at the Minsk Regional Drama Theater in Maladzyechna.

He defended his PhD dissertation on "Occasional Words in Belarusian Literary Texts of the 1920s" and earned the degree of Candidate of Philological Sciences in 2004. In 2008, he received the academic title of Associate Professor.

Until his passing, he worked as an associate professor at the Department of Belarusian Linguistics at BSPU and at the Department of Modern European Languages at BNTU[3]. His research focused on occasional vocabulary in literary texts. He authored over 50 scholarly articles and the monograph "Occasional Words in Belarusian Literary Texts of the 1920s" (2013). His academic interests included lexicology and derivatology.

He passed away on November 16, 2021, due to complications from COVID-19.

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