Viktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski
Viktor Zhirmunsky ( Russian Виктор Максимович Жирмунский , alternative transcriptions: Viktor Maximovič Žirmunskij, Victor Zhirmunsky; born July 21 . Jul / 2. August 1891 . Greg in Saint Petersburg , † 31 January 1971 in Leningrad ) was a Russian philologist , Dialektologe and Germanist .
Life
Schirmunski's parents, the doctor Moissei (later name changed to Maximilian) and his wife Alexandra (née Malkiel), who came from a family of respected building contractors from Daugavpils , were both Russian-speaking Jews . Wiktor Schirmunski graduated from the University of Saint Petersburg with a degree in German in 1912 . In 1917 he became a professor at the University of Saratov , in 1956 at the Leningrad University, from 1957 he was also head of the Indo-European Languages department of the Linguistics Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences . In 1956 he became a corresponding and 1969 foreign member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR . On October 16, 1967, Schirmunski was elected honorary member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences , in 1962 he became a corresponding member of the British Academy and in 1970 of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences .
His research work in the field of German studies included research into the dialects of the Russian- Germans and the history of German and English classical literature (including Goethe and Byron ). He became known in the German-speaking world not least for his classic German Dialectology, which appeared in Russian in 1956, was published in German in a translation by Wolfgang Fleischer in 1962 and was re-edited in 2010 by Larissa Naiditsch in a commented version.
His collection of Russian-German songs was published in 2018 by the German Folk Song Archive in Freiburg and the Institute for Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences in St. Petersburg.
Publications (selection)
- German dialect science. Edited and commented by Larissa Naiditsch. Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main 2010. ISBN 978-3-631-59973-0 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Wiktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski in the catalog of the German National Library
- Brief appreciation with picture
- Biography on sprach-insel.com (Russian)
Individual evidence
- ^ Deceased Fellows. British Academy, accessed August 26, 2020 .
- ↑ http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/rezensions/2019-1-165
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| SURNAME | Schirmunski, Viktor Maximowitsch |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Žirmunskij, Viktor Maximovič; Zhirmunsky, Victor; Жирму́нский, Ви́ктор Макси́мович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian philologist, dialectologist and Germanist of Jewish origin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 2, 1891 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 31, 1971 |
| Place of death | Leningrad |