Viktor Zhirmunski
Viktor Zhirmunski · Philosophy & Social Sciences
Russian linguist and literary scholar known for dialectology and historical poetics.
1891, Saint Petersburg, Russia — 1971, Leningrad, Soviet Union
Russia · Soviet Union
Viktor Zhirmunski is recognized among Jewish contributors to Philosophy & Social Sciences — Russian linguist and literary scholar known for dialectology and historical poetics.
Zhirmunsky was a Soviet literary historian and linguist, a leading figure of Russian formal and comparative literary studies and the founder of the Russian school of Germanic studies, noted for his work in dialectology and historical poetics. He weathered the ideological purges of the Stalin era, later developing a historical-typological theory of literary similarities. He was born into a Jewish family in Saint Petersburg.
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Russian linguist and literary scholar known for dialectology and historical poetics.
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