Max Vasmer

Max Julius Friedrich Vasmer ( Russified form: .. Максимилиан Романович Фасмер ( Maximilian Romanovich Vasmer ) * 15 Februarjul / February 27 1886greg in Saint Petersburg, † November 30, 1962 in Berlin) was a German-Russian Slavic.

Life

Max Vasmer - a son of German parents - ended in 1907 graduated from the University of St. Petersburg, where he habilitated in 1909. 1912 Vasmer was appointed as a professor at the St. Petersburg college for women. From 1917 he worked at the University of Saratov and from 1919 at the University of Dorpat. In 1923 Vasmer came to Leipzig, and in 1924 founded the Journal of Slavic philology. In 1925 he was appointed professor at the Friedrich -Wilhelms -Universität zu Berlin. He established the Slavic Institute.

Vasmer remained even during the time of National Socialism - from a visit to Columbia University in New York except in the years 1938/39 - in Berlin. He tried in 1940 to intervene on behalf of the arrested in the Special Action Krakow Polish academics and also strove for persecuted slavonicists.

After the war he took in the winter semester 1946/47, his lectures at the Humboldt University in Berlin (East) again. After a visiting professorship 1947/48 in Stockholm, he returned to Berlin ( West), where until his retirement in 1956 he worked since 1949 at the Free University of Berlin.

Max Vasmer was a member of the scientific academies in Leipzig, Berlin, Mainz, Vienna, Oslo, Copenhagen, Stockholm, Budapest, Moscow, Sofia and Helsinki and learned a wealth of academic honors. In 1958 he was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit with Star of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany and was the University of Bonn since 1962 honorary doctorate. He found his final resting place at the Protestant Cemetery in Berlin- Steglitz-Zehlendorf Nikolasee.

Works

  • Russian etymological dictionary. Winter, Heidelberg 1953-1958.
  • The Greek loanwords in Serbo- Croatian. De Gruyter, Berlin, 1944.
  • Russian grammar. 7th edition. De Gruyter, Berlin 1971, ISBN 978-3-11-001933-9 (together with Erich Berneker; appeared in the Goschen collection ).
  • Russian Geographical Names book. Founded by Max Vasmer, edited by Herbert Brauer on behalf of the Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. Edited by Ingrid Coper, Ingeborg villages, Hans -Jochen Pasenow, Klaus Piperek, Marit Podeschwik, Jürgen Prince Georg Viktor Schulz and Rita Siegmann. Harrassowitz Verlag, Wiesbaden. Volume I - Volume X, 1964-81; Volume XI (Amendments and Supplements), 1988, ISBN 3-447-02851-3; Maps tape, 1989, ISBN 3-447-02923-4.
  • The Slavs in Greece. Berlin 1941, Leipzig 1970.
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