Eugen Helimski

Eugen A. Helimski ( Russian Евге́ний Арно́льдович Хели́мский , also transcribed Evgenij A. Chelimskij ; born March 15, 1950 in Odessa , USSR / Ukrainian SSR ; †  December 25, 2007 in Hamburg , Germany ) was a linguist and linguist.

Life

Eugen Helimski studied linguistics in Moscow and received his doctorate in Finnish-Ugric languages in 1979 (Cand. Sc.); In 1988 he completed his habilitation (Dr. Sc.). From 1978 to 1997 he was a research assistant at the Russian Academy of Sciences in Moscow. In 1992 he was appointed professor at the Russian State University of the Humanities in Moscow. He was visiting professor at the Loránd Eötvös University (ELTE) Budapest (1994–1995), at the Free University of Berlin (1995), at the Humboldt University in Berlin and at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow (1997–1998).

In 1998, he received a call to the chair of Finno-Ugric and Uralic at the Department of Linguistics, Literature and Media Studies of the University of Hamburg ; he was also director of the Institute for Finno-Ugric / Ural Studies.

Act

His main research area was the Finno-Ugric languages and the Samoyed languages and peoples . He was considered one of the most respected linguists and social anthropologists for Nordic languages ​​and indigenous cultures of Siberia. He was the author of several hundred scientific works, with more than 20 monographs, around 200 journal articles and numerous reviews and encyclopedic entries.

Web links

• Literature by and about Eugen Helimski in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Eugen Helimski (University of Hamburg) ( Memento from July 26, 2011 in the Internet Archive ).
• Eugen Helimski's private website (Russian / English) ( Memento from June 28, 2009 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Harro Stammerjohann: Lexicon Grammaticorum: A bio-bibliographical companion to the history of linguistics . Walter de Gruyter, 2009, ISBN 978-3-484-97112-7 .
2. ↑ Alouette Verlag, press release of January 17th, 2008  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.