Maria Iliescu

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Maria Henrietta Iliescu , b. Adlersberger (born June 1, 1927 in Vienna ; † January 21, 2020 in Craiova ) was an Austrian Romance philologist .

Life

Iliescu was born in 1927 as the only child of Sophia and Richard Adlersberger. In 1938 the family moved to Romania because they had Romanian citizenship from 1918. Maria Adlersberger was sent to a French boarding school for nuns. After graduation, she studied Classical Philology and Medieval History at the University of Bucharest . In 1949 she married her fellow student Vladimir Iliescu.

After the state examination in 1950, she became the assistant to Alexandru Graur (Classical Philology and Indo-European Studies), who was banned from teaching in 1952. In the following years she worked in research, at the Institute for Linguistics of the Romanian Academy of Sciences , on Romanian grammar (in 1954 she received the State Prize 2nd Class for this) and in the Lexicography section, where she also headed the department for bilingual dictionaries has been.

In the 1960s she collected dialect samples from the Friulians living in Romania , which were the starting point for her doctorate. In 1972 the dissertation ( Le frioulan à partir des dialectes parlés en Roumanie ) was published in the west by Mouton.

In the same year Iliescu got a call as a full professor of general and Romance linguistics at the University of Craiova . Here she taught from 1972 to 1982.

Political reasons and her husband's professional situation prompted Maria Iliescu to emigrate to Germany with her family in 1983. In the autumn of 1983 she received an invitation as a visiting professor at the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Innsbruck . Between 1983 and 2001 she was university professor at the Institute for Romance Studies at the University of Innsbruck, where she continued to be honorary professor. From 1989 to 1999 Maria Iliescu also lectured as professore associato at the University of Trento . From 1999 to 2012 she worked as a professor consultant at the University of Craiova and in this capacity has supervised over 20 dissertations.

From 2007 to 2010 Maria Iliescu was President of the Société de Linguistique Romane . She received several honorary doctorates and was awarded the Tyrolean State Prize for Science in 2004. In 2009 she also received the Order of Serviciul Credincios in the rank of Commander.

Her academic focus was on comparative Romance linguistics (especially French, Rhaeto-Romanic, Romanian) and on Vulgar Latin.

Maria Iliescu's list of publications contains almost 300 titles.

literature

  • Johannes Kramer, Guntram A. Plangg (eds.): Verbum Romanicum. Festschrift for Maria Iliescu (Romance studies in the past and present; 28). Buske Verlag, Hamburg 1993, ISBN 3-87548-025-2 .
  • Hans-Martin Gauger / Wolfgang Pöckl (eds.), Paths of Linguistics , Twenty-Four Autobiographical Reports, Tübingen: Narr, 1992: Labor omnia vincit improbus, 118–124.
  • Draghicescu, Janeta / Gabriela Scurtu (eds.), Études romanes dédíées à Maria Iliescu , Michaela Livescu / Tudora Șandru-Mehedinți, laudation 7–16, Marius Sala , Prezentare, 16–18. in Analele Universității din Craiova, Seria ‚Langues et litteratures romanes, Craiova, Editura Universitaria, 1998.

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personal data
SURNAME Iliescu, Maria
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Adlersberger, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2020
Place of death Craiova