Ivan Klajn

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Ivan Klajn (2017)

Ivan Klajn (born January 31, 1937 in Belgrade ; † March 31, 2021 there ) was a Yugoslav or Serbian linguist and translator .

Life

Ivan Klajn was the son of the musicologist Stana Đurić-Klajn (1905–1986) and the psychoanalyst and theater director Hugo Klajn (1894–1981). Like his half-brother Slobodan Ribnikar (1929–2008), he first studied physical chemistry , but broke off this course after a short time. He graduated from the University of Belgrade with a degree in Italian Language and Literature , where he obtained his doctorate in 1970 .

From 1984 he was full professor of Italian language and comparative grammar of Romance languages at the University of Belgrade. In 2002 he retired. He translated from Italian and English and wrote an Italian-Serbian dictionary. In addition, he also dealt with the Serbian language and questions of language planning . From 1974 he wrote columns on linguistic problems in the newspaper Borba , later in the Politika and in the NIN .

He was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in 2000 and a full member in 2003 . He is one of the signatories of the declaration on the common language published in 2017 , which opposes a nationalistically motivated separation of the Serbo-Croatian language into individual languages ​​with artificially increased differences.

Ivan Klajn died in the hospital in the Zemun district of Belgrade as a result of a COVID-19 illness.

Publications (selection)

  • Uticaji engleskog jezika u italijanskom (Influences of the English language in Italian), 1971; Italian edition: Influssi inglesi nella lingua italiana , 1972
  • Jezik oko nas (The language around us), 1980
  • Kako se kaže? Rečnik jezičkih nedoumica (How do you say? Dictionary of linguistic cases of doubt), 1981; later editions etc. T. Rečnik jezičkih nedoumica (Dictionary of Linguistic Doubt), 9th edition 2008, ISBN 978-86-515-0212-8
  • Rečnik novih reči (Dictionary of New Words), 1992, ISBN 86-363-0231-5
  • Ispeci pa reci , 1998, 5th edition 2010, ISBN 978-86-515-0562-4
  • Tvorba reči u savremenom srpskom jeziku ( Word formation in today's Serbian language), 2 volumes, 2003 and 2003, ISBN 86-17-09531-8 and ISBN 86-17-11094-5
  • Italijansko-srpski rečnik (Italian-Serbian dictionary), 4th edition 2006, ISBN 978-86-19-02380-1
  • Gramatika srpskog jezika za strance (Serbian grammar for foreigners), 2006, ISBN 86-17-13092-X
  • Transcription: can we make it work? , in: Bernhard Brehmer and Biljana Golubović (eds.), Serbian and Croatian written linguistics. History, Perspectives and Current Problems , 2010, ISBN 978-3-8300-4307-2 , pp. 83-101
  • (as ed.): Contrastivna proučavanja srpskog jezika: pravci i rezultati ( Contrastive studies of the Serbian language), 2010, ISBN 978-86-7025-512-8
  • Bušenje jezika , 2012, ISBN 978-86-515-0703-1
  • (as ed.): Srpski jezik i aktuelna pitanja jezičke politike (The Serbian Language and the Current Issue of Language Policy), 2014, ISBN 978-86-82873-48-8
  • (as ed.): Srpski jezik i aktuelna pitanja jezičke planiranja (The Serbian language and the current question of language planning), 2016, ISBN 978-86-82873-52-5

Awards (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ivan Klajn preminuo od korone , mondo.rs, March 31, 2021
personal data
SURNAME Klajn, Ivan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Yugoslav and Serbian linguist, lexicographer and translator
DATE OF BIRTH January 31, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Belgrade
DATE OF DEATH March 31, 2021
PLACE OF DEATH Belgrade