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Elizabeth Hill (linguist)

Dame Elizabeth Mary Hill DBE was a Russian-born English academic linguist. In addition to a career with the London University School of Slavonic Studies, she was course director of the Joint Services School for Linguists (JSSL), a UK Government training programme to produce linguists and interpreters of Russian, for military and intelligence purposes.

Background
Hill was born on 24 October 1900 in St Petersburg, the fifth of six children (and second of the three daughters) of Frederick William Hill (1860–1924), and his wife, born Luise Sophie Olga Wilhelmine Müller (1862-1928). The family had fled the Bolsheviks in 1917 in fear for their lives. Elizabeth celebrated her seventeenth birthday on the ship that carried them away. ==Career==
Career
Often known as "Lisa", Hill worked in several language teaching jobs before entering University College London, where she gained a First-class degree in Russian in 1924 and a PhD in 1931. Hill trained military recruits in Russian. A fellow of Girton College, in 1948, she became the first Professor of Slavonic Studies at the University of Cambridge. She held this position until 1968. ==Personal life==
Personal life
In 1984, Hill married Stojan Veljkovic, described by one source as a "Serbian aristocrat", Professor Hill is buried in the grounds of the church of St. Andrew & St. Mary, Grantchester. ==Further reading==
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