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 .
personal data
SURNAME Birnbaum, Henrik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Birnbaum, Henrik Maximilian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Slavist and historian
DATE OF BIRTH December 13, 1925
PLACE OF BIRTH Wroclaw
DATE OF DEATH April 30, 2002
Place of death los Angeles