Aimo Sakari
Aimo Ilmari Kallio Sakari (born February 2, 1911 in Kuolemajärvi , Vyborg , † May 20, 2001 in Keuruu ) was a Finnish Romanist , Provençalist , Medievalist and translator .
Life
Sakari attended the grammar school in Vyborg and studied Romance philology with Arthur Långfors in Helsinki. From 1937 to 1941 and from 1945 to 1958 he was a Finnish lecturer at the Institut des langues orientales (Inalco) in Paris (in between, a lieutenant in the Finnish army). At the same time he heard from Clovis Brunel , Jean Boutière , Pierre Fouché , Mario Roques and Félix Lecoy . In 1956 he received his doctorate in Helsinki with a dissertation Poésies du troubadour Guillem de Saint-Didier . From 1958 to 1981 he was a high school teacher (for German and French) in Jyväskylä , from 1961 a lecturer at the newly founded Philosophical Faculty of the University of Jyväskylä , from 1966 to 1977 professor for Romance languages (also dean and prorector). From 1977 to 1980 he taught Finnish language and culture at the Sorbonne. From 1981 to 1990 he was Vice President of the Association internationale d'études occitanes (AIEO).
Works
Romance Studies
- Azalais de Porcairagues, le Joglar de Raimbaut d'Orange, in: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 50, 1949, pp. 23–198
- (Ed.) Doctrinal sauvage, Jyväskylä 1967
Finlandistik
- Littérature finlandaise du XXe siècle, in: Profile littéraire de la France. Nouvelle Série 2, 1951
- Keuruun satavuotias kansakoulu, Keuruu 1969
- [Finnish literature, in:] Dictionnaire des littératures. Publié sous la direction de Philippe Van Tieghem, 3 vols., Paris 1968, 4 vols., Paris 1984, also separately udT Manuel de littérature finlandaise, Paris 1981
Translations
- (from the French) Hergé, Tintin seikkailut, 5 vols., Helsinki 1961–1962
- (from the French) Stendhal, Parman kartusiaaniluostari [La Chartreuse de Parme], Helsinki 1971
- (from Finnish with Lucie Thomas) Aleksis Kivi, Les Cordonniers de la lande. Comédie en cinq actes, Cergy 1989
literature
- Leena Löfstedt, "Aimo Sakari (1911-2001) in memoriam " in: Estudis Romànics 25, 2003, pp. 512-515
Web links
- Literature by and about Aimo Sakari in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)
- http://www.raco.cat/index.php/estudis/article/viewFile/177209/229579 (L. Löfstedt)
- http://www.inalco.fr/ina_gabarit_rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=1635 (Finnish at Inalco)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sakari, Aimo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Sakari, Aimo Ilmari Kallio (full name); Salonen, Aimo Ilmari Kallio (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Finnish Romanist, Provençalist, Medievalist and translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 2, 1911 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kuolemajarvi , Vyborg |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 20, 2001 |
| Place of death | Keuruu |