Boris Ottokar Unbegaun (russian: Бори́с Ге́нрихович Унбега́ун, ''Boris Genrikhovich Unbegaun'') (1898,

Moscow Moscow ( , US chiefly ; rus, links=no, Москва, r=Moskva, p=mɐskˈva, a=Москва.ogg) is the capital and largest city of Russia. The city stands on the Moskva River in Central Russia, with a population estimated at 13.0 million ...

– 1973) was a Russian-born German

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and

philologist Philology () is the study of language in oral and written historical sources; it is the intersection of textual criticism, literary criticism, history, and linguistics (with especially strong ties to etymology). Philology is also defined as th ...

, expert in Slavic studies:

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and

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. He worked in universities of France, Great Britain and the United States. He was a Professor of Slavonic studies at

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and he was succeeded by his student

Anne Pennington Anne Elizabeth Pennington (1934-1981) was a British philologist specialising in Slavic studies. She was particularly interested in songs as well as the development of the language. Life Penninngton was born on 31 March 1934 to Janet Winifred ...

Major works

* La langue russe au XVIe siècle (1500—1550). — Paris: Inst. d'Études Slaves de l’Univ. de Paris, 1935. * Les débuts de la langue littéraire chez les Serbes. — Paris: Champion, 1935. * Grammaire russe. — Lyon-Paris, IAC, 1951 (English translation: Russian grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; German translation: Russische Grammatik. — Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969) * L’Origine du nom des Ruthènes. — Winnipeg: Acad. ukrainienne libre des sciences, 1953. * A bibliographical guide to the Russian language. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953. * Russian versification. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956. * Drei russische Grammatiken des 18. Jahrhunderts. Nachdr. der Ausg. von 1706, 1731 und 1750. — München: Fink, 1969. * Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics. — New York: New York University Press., 1969. * Selected papers on Russian and Slavonic philology. — Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969. * Russian surnames. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Russian translation: Унбегаун Б.-О. Русские фамилии. — Moscow: Progress Publisher, 1989

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