Maxim Vladimirovich Sergievsky

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Maxim Vladimirovich Sergijevski ( Russian Максим Владимирович Сергиевский ; born October 13 . Jul / 25. October  1892 greg. In Moscow ; † 20th June 1946 ) was a Russian-Soviet linguist and Romanist .

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Sergievsky finished his studies at Moscow's Lomonosov University in 1916 . From 1925 to 1946 he was a professor at the Moscow State University (newly created chair for Romance-Germanic linguistics).

Sergijewski was one of the founders of Romance studies in the Soviet Union . He dealt with the history, grammar and dialectology of Romance languages as well as Slavic-Romance language contact (especially Romanian- Slavic and Moldovan- Slavic language contact). Both his History of the French Language (1938) and his Introduction to Romance Linguistics (1952) have long been among the standard works of Romance studies at Soviet universities.

Sergijewski postulated the thesis of the independence of the Moldovan language compared to Romanian . Due to the intensive contact with the East Slavic languages, Moldovan, which belongs to the East Romance languages, has developed phonetically and lexically compared to Romanian.

Sergijewski also dealt with the historical grammar of German and especially with the Romani . Together with Alexei Petrovich Barannikow he edited the first Gypsy-Russian dictionary (1938). He was a member of the Gypsy Lore Society .

Works

Monographs

  • Historical grammar of the German language . Moscow 1928/29.
  • Цыганский язык ( The Gypsy Language ) Moscow 1931.
  • Молдавские этюды ( Moldovan Studies ). Moscow / Leningrad 1936.
  • История французского языка. Moscow 1938 (German history of the French language . Beck, Munich 1979).
  • Введение в романское языкознание ( Introduction to Romance Linguistics ). Moscow 1952.
  • Молдавско-славянские этюды ( Moldavian-Slavic Studies ) Moscow 1959.

Dictionaries

  • Румынско-русский словарь ( Romanian-Russian Dictionary ). Moscow 1931.
  • (with AP Barannikow): Цыганско-русский словарь ( Gypsy-Russian dictionary ). Moscow 1938.

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SURNAME Sergijewski, Maxim Wladimirowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Сергиевский, Максим Владимирович
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Soviet Romanist
DATE OF BIRTH October 25, 1892
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH June 20, 1946
Place of death Moscow