Boris Unbegaun
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Boris Ottokar Unbegaun (Russian: Бори́с Ге́нрихович Унбега́ун, romanized: Boris Genrikhovich Unbegaun) (1898, Moscow – 1973) was a Russian-born German linguist and philologist, expert in Slavic studies: Slavic languages and literature. He worked in universities of France, Great Britain and the United States.[1][2][3]
He was a Professor of Slavonic studies at Oxford University and he was succeeded by his student Anne Pennington.[4][5][6]
Major works
[edit]- La langue russe au XVIe siècle (1500—1550). — Paris: Inst. d'Études Slaves de l’Univ. de Paris, 1935.
- Les débuts de la langue littéraire chez les Serbes. — Paris: Champion, 1935.
- Grammaire russe. — Lyon-Paris, IAC, 1951 (English translation: Russian grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; German translation: Russische Grammatik. — Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969)
- L’Origine du nom des Ruthènes. — Winnipeg: Acad. ukrainienne libre des sciences, 1953.
- A bibliographical guide to the Russian language. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.
- Russian versification. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
- Drei russische Grammatiken des 18. Jahrhunderts. Nachdr. der Ausg. von 1706, 1731 und 1750. — München: Fink, 1969.
- Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics. — New York: New York University Press., 1969.
- Selected papers on Russian and Slavonic philology. — Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969.
- Russian surnames. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Russian translation: Унбегаун Б.-О. Русские фамилии. — Moscow: Progress Publisher, 1989
References
[edit]- ^ Robert Magidoff; George Y. Shevelov; J. S. G. Simmons, J.S.G.; Kiril Taronovski (Hrsg.), Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics in Honour of Boris O. Unbegaun, New York, New York University Press 1968
- ^ Unbegaun, Boris Ottokar, KATALOG DER DEUTSCHEN NATIONALBIBLIOTHEK
- ^ Tsvetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941. Marina Tsvetaeva letters to Boris Ottokar Unbegaun, 1935-1938: Guide Archived 2017-04-03 at the Wayback Machine, HArvard University Library
- ^ "Pennington, Anne Elizabeth (1934–1981), Slavonic philologist | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/65494. Retrieved 2019-04-06. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- ^ "Boris Unbegaun, N.y.u. Professor". The New York Times. 1973-03-06. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2020-04-08.
- ^ Drage and Pennington, C.L. and Anne (July 1973). "Boris Ottokar Unbegaun (1898-1973)". The Slavonic and East European Review. 51 (124): 448–451. JSTOR 4206751.
Categories:
- 1898 births
- 1973 deaths
- Writers from Moscow
- People from Moskovsky Uyezd
- Ethnic German people from the Russian Empire
- Linguists from the United States
- Linguists from France
- 20th-century linguists
- White Russian emigrants to France
- White Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom
- White Russian emigrants to the United States
- Buchenwald concentration camp survivors
- New York University faculty