Boris Andreevich Uspensky

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Boris Andreevich Uspenski ( Russian Борис Андреевич Успенский , scientific transliteration Boris Andreevič Uspenskij ; born March 1, 1937 in Moscow ) is, together with Juri Lotman , the most important representative of Russian semiotics .

He taught at the Lomonossow University in Moscow , held visiting professorships in Austria and the USA and is a professor emeritus in Naples . Uspenski is the author of 400 papers on theoretical linguistics , the history of the Church Slavonic and Russian languages, cultural studies and art and history semiotics .

Since 1987 he has been an external member of the Austrian and since 1999 of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences . In 1990 he was elected a full member of the Academia Europaea . He is a multiple honorary doctor.

The mathematician Vladimir Uspensky was Boris Uspenski's older brother.

Literature (selection)

  • Uspenskij, Boris A .: Poetics of Composition. Structure of the artistic text and typology of the form of composition, Frankfurt am Main 1975.
  • Uspenskij, Boris A .: Istorija russkogo literaturnogo jazyka (XI-XVII vv.) [= History of the Russian literary language. 11-17 Jh.] , Munich 1987. (Sagner's Slavic Collection. 12).
  • Uspenskij, Boris A .: Kratkij očerk istorii russkogo literaturnogo jazyka (XI-XIX vv.) [= Brief outline of the history of the Russian literary language. 11-19 Century], Moscow 1994.
  • Uspenskij, Boris A .: Semiotika iskusstva [= semiotics of art],, Moscow 1995.
  • Uspenskij, Boris A .: Izbrannye trudy [= selection of works], 3 vol., Moscow 1996–1997.
  • Uspenskij, Boris A .: Car 'i patriarch. Charizma vlasti v Rossii. Vizantijskaja model 'i ee russkoe pereosmyslenie [= Tsar and Patriarch. Charisma of power in Russia. The Byzantine model and its Russian reinterpretation], Moscow 1998.
  • Uspenskij, Boris A .: Ėtjudy o russkoj istorii [= essays on Russian history],, Moscow 2002.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Membership directory: Boris Uspensky. Academia Europaea, accessed on October 6, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
personal data
SURNAME Uspensky, Boris Andrejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Успенский, Борис Андреевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian literary scholar
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow