Vasile Arvinte

Vasile Arvinte (* 26. December 1927 in Voinesti , Iaşi County ; † 11. December 2011 ) was a Romanian linguist and Rumänist .

Life

Arvinte graduated from Iași in 1950 and made a career as a scientist there. From 1958 to 1962 he was lecturer in Romanian at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He received his doctorate there in 1962 with the work The German Loans in Romanian Dialects according to the information from the Romanian Language Atlas (Berlin 1971) and The Romanians. Origin, national and country names (Tübingen 1980). He taught at the University of Dijon from 1964 to 1965 and was visiting professor in Bonn, Cologne and Freiburg from 1965 to 1967 and from 1972 to 1974. From 1969 he was professor of Romanian language and literature at the University of Alexandru Ioan Cuza Iași (at times also dean and prorector).

Works

• Terminologia exploatării lemnului și a plutăritului , Iași 1957
• (Ed. Cooperation) Transylvania as an example of European cultural exchange , ed. by Paul Philippi, Cologne / Vienna 1975
• Român, românesc, România , Bacău 1983, 2004, 2008
• (with others) Noul atlas lingvistic al României: Moldova și Bucovina , Bucharest 1987
• (Ed. With others) Biblia 1688 , Iași 1988–1997, 2001–2002 (Monumenta Linguae Dacoromanorum IV)
• Raporturi lingvistice româno-germane. Contribuții etimologice , ed. by Alexandru Gafton, Bacău 2002
• Normele limbii literare în opera lui Ion Creangă , Iași 2002
• Studii de istorie a limbii române , Iași 2006 (collection of articles)
• Normele limbii literare în opera lui IL Caragiale , Iași 2007
• Normele limbii literare în opera lui Mihai Eminescu , Iași 2008
• (Ed.) Palia de la Orăștie , 2 vols., Iași 2005–2007

literature

• Dacia Literară 110–111, 23, 2012, pp. 102–104 ( http://www.dacialiterara.ro/6-2012/DL-11-12-2012.pdf , obituary in Romanian by Eugen Munteanu, with picture )

Web links

• Literature by and about Vasile Arvinte in the SUDOC catalog (Association of French University Libraries)