Georgi Vladimirovich Stepanov

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Georgi Wladimirowitsch Stepanow ( Russian Георгий Владимирович Степанов ; born April 9, 1919 in Biysk ; † October 28, 1986 in Moscow ) was a Russian-Soviet Romanist .

Life

Stepanov studied from 1937 at the Romance Department of the Philological Faculty of the Leningrad State University . In 1938 Stepanov took part in the Spanish Civil War as a translator . After the defeat of the republic, he was evacuated to Oran in 1939 and interned there. In 1939 Stepanov managed to return to Leningrad, where he resumed his studies.

In 1941 Stepanov volunteered for the front and was wounded near the village of Sablino near Leningrad and was taken prisoner by Germany . However, he was able to escape from the German camp and then fought in a partisan unit in Estonia .

Stepanov graduated from Leningrad State University in 1947. He then taught there from 1948 to 1971, from 1968 as a professor. From 1971 he worked at the Institute for Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR in Moscow in the department for Romance languages. In 1977 he became director of the institute. He also taught at the State Pedagogical Institute for Foreign Languages ​​"Maurice Thorez" in Moscow.

From 1974 he was a corresponding, from 1981 a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. From 1976 to 1982 he was editor-in-chief of the magazine “Известия Академии наук СССР. Серия литературы и языка “( News of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR. Series Literature and Language ), then from 1976 to 1982 editor-in-chief of the magazine“ Вопросы языкознания ”( Questions of Linguistics ) and from 1983 chairman of the Commission for the History of Philological Sciences of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.

In 1978 he was elected Vice President of the Friendship Society USSR-Spain. In 1978 he was elected a foreign member of the Real Academia Española and the Lisbon Academy of Sciences and in 1982 he was elected a foreign member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig .

Stepanov had been a member of the CPSU since 1956 .

Act

Stepanov's dissertation ("Роль Сервантеса в становлении испанского литературного языка", 1951) dealt with the role of Cervantes in the development of the Spanish literary language.

At the end of the 1950s he was the first to come up with the idea of ​​a special “national variant” of the Spanish literary language (= standard variety) in Latin America. He was one of the founders of the concept of pluricentric languages . In 1967 he completed his habilitation on Spanish in Latin America in the system of uniform Spanish ("Испанский язык Америки в системе единого испанского языка", 1967).

Stepanow has also translated numerous works from Spanish into Russian, including works by Cervantes , Lope de Vega , Calderón , Valle-Inclan , Vicente Blasco Ibáñez , Pío Baroja , José María de Pereda , Miguel de Unamuno and Ana María Matute .

Awards

Works (selection)

Monographs

  • Испанский язык в странах Латинской Америки ( Spanish in the countries of Latin America ). Moscow 1963.
  • Теоретическая грамматика испанского языка ( Theoretical grammar of Spanish ; together with OK Wasiljewoi-Swede). Moscow 1972.
  • К проблеме языкового варьирования. Испанский язык Испании и Америки ( On the problem of linguistic varieties. The Spanish language in Spain and Latin America ). Moscow 1979.

Important articles

  • О грамматических особенностях испано-американской речи ( About the grammatical peculiarities of the Hispano-American spoken language ). In: Вопросы грамматики ( Problems of grammar ), Moscow / Leningrad 1960, pp. 419–424.
  • Социально-географическая дифференциация испанского языка Америки ( Socio-geographical differentiation of the Spanish language in Latin America ). In: Вопросы социальной лингвистики ( questions of sociolinguistics ). Leningrad, 1969, pp. 284-308.
  • Stepanov, Gregorij V. / Švejcer, Aleksandr D .: Toward a Study of Transplanted Languages . In: Geckeler, Horst et al. (Ed.): Logos semanticos. Studia linguistica in honorem Eugenio Coseriu 1921–1981 . Vol. 5. de Gruyter, Berlin / New York 1981, 219-225.

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personal data
SURNAME Stepanov, Georgi Vladimirovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Степанов, Георгий Владимирович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Biysk
DATE OF DEATH October 28, 1986
Place of death Moscow