Sergei Sergeyevich Averintsev

Sergei Aveverintsev (right)

Sergei Sergejewitsch Awerinzew ( Russian Сергей Сергеевич Аверинцев ; * December 10, 1937 in Moscow , † February 21, 2004 in Vienna ) was a Russian literary scholar and Slavist .

Awerinzew was the son of the biologist Sergei Vasiljewitsch Awerinzew. He studied classical philology in Moscow and received the title of candidate of science in 1967 with a thesis on Plutarch . In 1979 he received a doctorate in science with a thesis on Byzantine poetry.

He worked initially as an editor, then from 1966 to 1971 in the Institute of Art History of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR . From 1971 to 1991 he worked at the Gorky Institute for World Literature . In 1989 he became a professor at the Institute of History and Cultural Theory of Moscow's Lomonosov University . In 1994 he was appointed to the University of Vienna , where he was full professor for East Slavic literatures at the Institute for Slavonic Studies until his death.

Averintsev was a member of the Academy of Sciences of Ukraine , from 1987 corresponding, from 2003 full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He received the Lenin Komsomol Prize in 1968, the State Prize of the Soviet Union in 1990 and the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1996 . In 1994 he became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences . In 1995 he was awarded the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize .

In addition to his ancient philological work, Averintsev is best known for his studies of Russian poetry of the so-called Silver Age .

literature

• Juliane Besters-Dilger et al. (Ed.): Commemorative publication for Sergej S. Averincev , Frankfurt / Main etc., 2007, ISBN 978-3-631-53651-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Sergei Sergejewitsch Awerinzew in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sergei Aveverintsev on the website of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine; accessed on September 10, 2018 (Ukrainian)