Igor Pavlovich Smirnov

Igor Pavlovich Smirnov (2009)

Igor Pawlowitsch Smirnow ( Russian Игорь Павлович Смирнов ; English transcription: Igor Pavlovich Smirnov ; born May 19, 1941 in Leningrad ) is a Russian literary scholar and Slavist active in Germany .

Life

Smirnov studied Russian Philology at the Leningrad State University from 1958 to 1963 . From 1963 to 1966 he was a doctoral student at the Institute for Russian Literature of the Academy of Sciences in Leningrad, where he received his doctorate in 1966 on the subject of "Artistic tradition and the individuality of the poet (N. Aseev, N. Zabolockij, V. Lugovskoj)".

From 1966 to 1979 Smirnov was employed at the Institute for Russian Literature as a research assistant. There he completed his habilitation thesis on "Questions of artistic tradition (Modern literature in its relationship to ancient Russian monuments and folklore)", which was accepted by the Institute for World Literature of the Academy of Sciences for defense.

In 1980 and 1981 he was invited to visiting professorships in Utrecht and Hamburg, which he was unable to attend. In 1981 he then left for the Federal Republic of Germany and in 1982 was appointed professor for Slavic literature at the University of Konstanz . In 1990 he turned down an offer at the University of Zurich and worked in Konstanz until his retirement in 2006.

Smirnow is co-editor of the magazine Welt der Slaven and a member of the editorial board of various Russian magazines.

Web links

• Literature by and about Igor Pawlowitsch Smirnow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Igor Smirnow on the website of the University of Konstanz