Bjorn Collinder

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Erik Alfred Torbjörn "Björn" Collinder

Erik Alfred Torbjörn "Björn" Collinder (* July 22, 1894 in Sundsvall ; † May 20, 1983 in Vienna ) was a Swedish linguist and long-time professor of Finno-Ugric Studies in Uppsala .

Life

Collinder was already a licentiate in Nordic studies when he began to study Finno-Ugric Studies . He became one of the most important students of Karl Bernhard Wiklund . In 1929 he acquired the Venia Legendi in Finno-Ugric linguistics and was Wiklund's successor as professor at Uppsala University .

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Collinder was an important exponent of Sami studies in Sweden . His work on Lule , North and South Sami , based in part on his own field research , has contributed to better documentation and description of these endangered languages .

Collinder was particularly interested in historical linguistics . Among other things, he examined Germanic loanwords in Baltic Finnish and Sami languages .

He is also known for reconstructions within Ural and possible genetic relationships with Indo-European , Yukagir and Altai . The partially complementary volumes for Uralic vocabulary (1955), of the comparative grammar Uralic languages (1957, 1960) and its introduction make still important tools for the study of the Uralic (1965) Uralic represents.

In addition to his productive linguistic research, Collinder was also active as an author for the great Swedish encyclopedia Svensk uppslagsbok , and he translated poetic works from various languages ​​into Swedish , including Beowulf , Kalevala , the Song Edda and dramas by William Shakespeare .

Collinder's most famous student, Bo Wickman , succeeded him as a professor in Uppsala.

Awards

Collinder was also admitted to numerous scientific academies, including the Finnish Academy of Sciences (1941), the Kungliga Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Academies (1943), the Norwegian Academy of Sciences (1945), the Royal Society of Sciences in Uppsala (1951) and the Austrian Academy of Sciences (1966).

Fonts (selection)

  • About the Finnish-Lapp quantity change I. Uppsala 1929.
  • The primitive Germanic loanwords in Finnish Uppsala 1932.
  • Indo-Urural language skills. Uppsala 1934.
  • Phonology of the Waldlappish dialect from Gällivare. Helsinki 1938.
  • Imperial Turkish phonetic studies. Uppsala 1939.
  • Jukagir and Ural. Uppsala 1940.
  • Lappish dictionary from Härjedalen. Uppsala 1943.
  • The Lapps. New York 1949.
  • The Lappish Dialect of Jukkasjärvi. Uppsala 1949.
  • Fenno-Ugric Vocabulary. (Collective work.) Stockholm 1955.
  • Survey of the Uralic Languages. (Collective work.) Stockholm 1957.
  • Comparative Grammar of the Uralic Languages. Stockholm 1960.
  • Ordbok till Sveriges lapska place name. Uppsala 1964.
  • The Kalevala and its Background. Stockholm 1964.
  • Linguistic Relationship and Probability. Selected writings republished for the author's 70th birthday July 22, 1964 together with a bibliography of the works by Björn Collinder 1921–1964. Uppsala 1964.
  • An Introduction to the Uralic Languages. Berkeley and Los Angeles 1965.
  • Does the Ural have relatives? A comparative study of languages. Uppsala 1965.
  • Critical remarks on Saussure's Cours de linguistique générale. Uppsala 1968.
  • Noam Chomsky and Generative Grammar. A critical consideration. Uppsala 1970.
  • Language and languages. Introduction to Linguistics. Hamburg 1978.

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ under the signature Bj. C .; see. Svensk uppslagsbok , Malmö 1929–1937.

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personal data
SURNAME Collinder, Bjorn
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Collinder, Erik Alfred Torbjörn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swedish linguist
DATE OF BIRTH July 22, 1894
PLACE OF BIRTH Sundsvall
DATE OF DEATH May 20, 1983
Place of death Vienna