Henrik Birnbaum

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Henrik Maximilian Birnbaum (born December 13, 1925 in Breslau , † April 30, 2002 in Los Angeles ) was a Slavist and historian .

Life

Henrik Birnbaum grew up in Warsaw, but left the city at the beginning of the Second World War in 1939 and went to Sweden . There he studied Slavic , German , Scandinavian and comparative literature and completed his studies in Stockholm in 1954 with a master's degree . In 1954 he received his doctorate in Slavic Studies and was then a lecturer at Stockholm University . After being a visiting professor at Harvard University in 1960 , he left Sweden for good in 1961 and went to Los Angeles in the USA . There he was at UCLA College, initially as a visiting professor ( associate professor ) until 1964 , then as a full professor of Slavic language and literature until 1994. From 1972 to 1973 he was professor for Balkan Romance , Slavic and Baltic languages at the University of Munich . From 1992 until his death he was head of the Faculty of Medieval Times at the Central European University in Budapest. In 1994 Henrik Birnbaum retired .

Birnbaum was married and had two children.

Works

Birnbaum's scholarly focus was mainly on the Slavic, Baltic, Balkan Romance languages, Indo-European studies, theoretical and typological linguistics, medieval, Slavic civilizations, semiotics and modern Russian literature. He wrote a total of 20 books or monographs and around 400 scientific publications. A selection below:

  • Investigations on the future paraphrases with the infinitive in Old Church Slavonic. A contribution to the historical verbal syntax of Slavic , Stockholm 1958, dissertation
  • Slaverna och deras grannfolk. En kort orientering (The Slavs and their neighbors. A brief orientation), Uppsala 1961
  • Studies on Predication in Russian I , Santa Monica, CA 1964
  • Studies on Predication in Russian II , Santa Monica, CA 1965
  • Problems of Typological and Genetic Linguistics Viewed in a Generative Framework , The Hague 1970
  • On Medieval and Renaissance Slavic Writing. Selected Essays , The Hague 1974
  • Common Slavic: Progress and Problems in its Reconstruction, Cambridge , MA, 1975
  • Doctor Faustus and Doctor Zhivago. Attempt on two time novels from an exile perspective , Lisse 1976, ISBN 90-316-0092-X
  • Linguistic Reconstruction: Its Potentials and Limitations in a New Perspective , Washington, DC 1977
  • Lord Novgorod the Great: Essays in the History and Culture of a Medieval City-State. Part One: The Historical Background , Columbus, OH 1981
  • Essays in early Slavic civilization = studies on the early culture of the Slavs , Munich 1981, ISBN 978-3-7705-2024-4
  • Recent Advances in the Reconstruction of Common Slavic (1971-1982) (with PT Merrill), Columbus, OH 1984
  • Lord Novgorod the Great: Sociopolitical Experiment and Cultural Achievement , Los Angeles 1985
  • Praslavianskii iazyk. Dostizhenia i problemy v ego re Konstruktsii , Moscow 1987
  • Novgorod and Dubrovnik: Two Slavic City Republics and Their Civilization , Zagreb 1989
  • Aspects of the Slavic Middle Ages and Slavic Renaissance Culture , New York / Bern / Frankfurt am Main / Paris 1991, ISBN 0-8204-1057-8
  • Novgorod in Focus , Columbus, OH 1996
  • Old Church Slavonic Studies - Part: 1., The Old Church Slavic Word: Education, Meaning, Derivation (with Jos Schaeken), Munich 1997, ISBN 978-3-87690-741-3
  • Old Church Slavonic Studies - Part: 2., The Old Church Slavonic written culture: history, sounds and characters, linguistic monuments (with Jos Schaeken), Munich 1999, ISBN 978-3-87690-741-3

Awards

Footnotes

  1. a b Book of Members 1780 – present, Chapter B. (PDF; 1.2 MB) In: American Academy of Arts and Sciences (amacad.org). Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  2. a b c Henrik Birnbaum - in memoriam. In: UCLA College, Department of Slavic, East European & Eurasian Languages ​​& Cultures. Retrieved November 5, 2018 .
  3. Birnbaum, Henrik. In: Croatian encyclopedia enciklopedija.hr. Retrieved November 5, 2018 (Croatian).
  4. Prof. Michael S. Flier: Henrik Birnbaum 1925-2002. In: listserv.linguistlist.org. May 1, 2002, accessed November 5, 2018 .