Honoris causa of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, Dr. philol. Sarma Kļaviņa is a linguist and teacher. Graduated from the Department of Latvian Language and Literature at the Faculty of History and Philology, Pēteris Stučka Latvian State University (1964), and has been a postgraduate student in mathematical linguistics in Leningrad under Prof. R. Piotrovski. Former head of the Department of Latvian Language at the Faculty of Philology, University of Latvia. Research interests: general linguistics, history of linguistics, life and research of
Jānis Endzelīns.