Viktor Zhirmunsky

Viktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski (Russian Виктор Максимович Жирмунский, alternative transcriptions: .. Viktor Maximovič Žirmunskij, Victor Zhirmunsky; * 21 Julijul / August 2 1891greg in Saint Petersburg, † January 31, 1971 in Leningrad) was a Russian philologist, Dialektologe and German studies Jewish origin.

Biography

Schirmunski closed 1912 German studies at the University of Saint Petersburg. In 1917 he became a professor at the University of Saratov, 1956 at the St. Petersburg (now Leningrad ) University, from 1957 he worked as Head of Indo-European languages ​​of the Linguistics Institute of the Soviet Academy of Sciences. On October 16, 1967 Schirmunski was elected an honorary member of the Saxon Academy of Sciences, in 1970 he became a corresponding member of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences.

His research in the field of German studies ranged among other things, the study of the dialects of the Russian Germans as well as the history of German and English classical literature ( including about Goethe and Byron ).