Rudolf Růžička (Linguist)
Rudolf Erich Anton Růžička (born December 20, 1920 in Löbau ; † February 9, 2011 in Berlin ) was a German Slavist and linguist.
Růžička was born in Löbau and learned Russian as a teenager. After graduating from high school and doing labor service, he was a soldier from 1940 to 1945 and then initially an interpreter for the district administrator of the Löbau district and the district command of the Soviet military administration. From 1947 to 1951 he studied Slavic, English and Philosophy at the Universities of Leipzig and Berlin, in 1956 he received his doctorate from the Humboldt University with a thesis on the verbal aspect of the Nestor Chronicle . Already employed at the University of Leipzig from 1951 , after his habilitation in 1961 he became a lecturer in Slavic Studies and General Linguistics, and from 1963 until his retirement in 1986 he was professor there. In 1966 he was elected a full member of the German Academy of Sciences in Berlin . From 1972 he was a full member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences in Leipzig , from 2003 until his death a corresponding member.
Růžička, a representative of generative grammar , was one of the leading Slavists in the GDR and also after 1990 a member of numerous national and international bodies.
Web links
- Literature by and about Rudolf Růžička in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rudolf Růžička in the professorial catalog of the University of Leipzig
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| SURNAME | Růžička, Rudolf |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Růžička, Rudolf Erich Anton; Ružička, Rudolf; Ruzicka, Rudolf; Růžička, R. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German Slavist and linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 20, 1920 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Löbau |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 9, 2011 |
| Place of death | Berlin |