Peter John Mayo

This article is about an English Slavist. For Peter Mayo, professor, former head of the Department of Arts, Open Communities and Adult Education at the University of Malta, see Peter Mayo.
Peter John Mayo
Born16 February 1944
London, UK
DiedApril 2004
Alma materUniversity of Birmingham
OccupationEnglish Slavist
Employer(s)University of Sheffield, University of Exeter
Notable workPocket English-Belarusian-Russian Dictionary

Peter John Mayo (16 February 1944, London - 1 January 2004) was an English slavist and promoter of Belarusian studies in Great Britain.

Career

Mayo was born in London. He graduated from the University of Birmingham in 1966.[1]

From 1969 to 1997 he worked as a lecturer at the University of Sheffield, and since 1998 at the University of Exeter. He was a member of the British University Association of Slavists (in 1978-80 its secretary).[1]

In 1982 Mayo earned a PhD in philology.[1]

Belarusian studies

Mayo studied the lexicography, morphology and syntax of the Belarusian and Russian languages. He authored "Grammar of the Byelorussian" reviewed in the Journal of Belarusian Studies by Shirin Akiner[2] as well as section "Belarusian language" in the collective monograph "Slavic languages", numerous articles on Belarusian and Slavic studies. He also wrote reviews of Belarusian linguistic research, textbooks and dictionaries.[1][3][4]

In 1979-88 Mayo was the editor of the Journal of Byelorussian Studies,[5] and from 1989 of the Slavic Section of “Modern Languages Studies”.[6] He prepared an English-Belarusian dictionary, a version of which was published in Minsk in 1995 as "Pocket English-Belarusian-Russian Dictionary".[1][4] Mayo was one of the editors of English-Belarusian Dictionary published in 2013.[7]

Mayo was a longtime member of the Anglo-Belarusian Society and a trustee of the Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum in London.[8]

Death

Mayo died in April 2004. The University of Sheffield prize for Russian was renamed in his honour.[9]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e Гардзіенка, Наталля (2010). Беларусы ў Вялікабрытаніі [Belarusians in Great Britain, by Natalla Hardzijenka]. Minsk: Згуртаванне беларусаў свету Бацькаўшчына. p. 477. ISBN 978-985-6887-63-8.
  2. ^ Akiner, S. (1976-12-16). "Mayo, P. J. A Grammar of Byelorussian. Anglo-Byelorussian Society in association with the Department of Russian and Slavonic Studies, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, 1976. 66 pages. Bibliography". Journal of Belarusian Studies. 3 (4): 381. doi:10.30965/20526512-00304012. ISSN 0075-4161.
  3. ^ "Peter J. Mayo | The Journal of Belarusian Studies". belarusjournal.com. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  4. ^ a b Zadencka, Maria; Plakans, Andrejs; Lawaty, Andreas, eds. (2015). East and Central European History Writing in Exile 1939-1989. On the Boundary of Two Worlds. Vol. 39. p. 126. ISBN 978-90-04-29969-6.
  5. ^ Mayo, Peter (1982). "Foreword". Journal of Belarusian Studies. 5 (2). Retrieved 21 July 2021.
  6. ^ Т.М. Суша "Мэё, Пітэр Джон" - [Mayo, Piter John, by T.M. Susha]. Беларуская энцыклапедыя ў 18 тамах [Belarusian Encyclopedia, in 18 volumes]. Vol. 11. Minsk: Bielaruskaja encyklapiedyja. 2000. p. 57.
  7. ^ English-Belarusian Disctionary (PDF). Minsk: Vysheishaya Shkola Publishing House. 2013.
  8. ^ "Arnold McMillin: "When Belarusians came, they started with the library"". Francis Skaryna Belarusian Library and Museum. 2016-06-16. Archived from the original on 2021-11-09. Retrieved 2021-05-29.
  9. ^ "The Peter Mayo Prize in Russian" (PDF). p. 8. Retrieved 2021-07-12.