Vladímir Admóni (russian: Владимир Григорьевич Адмони) (October 29, 1909, St. Petersburg,

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- 26 November 1993, St. Petersburg,

) was a Soviet linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, doctor of philological Sciences (1947), Professor (1948). Correspondent member of Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, doctor

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at the University of Uppsala. President of the Bureau of the section of literary translation of the

Leningrad Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

(now St. Petersburg) branch of

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(now

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). He wrote numerous works of the

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, the theory of

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, essays about

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and

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. Verses, prose memoir, poetic and prose translations from German and the Scandinavian languages to Russian (many co-authored with his wife, T. I. Silman). He published a number of own artistic works written in German language or in German translations.

Biography

Vladimir was a son of the famous historian, publicist and Jewish community leader Gregoriy Yakovlevich Krasniy-Admoni; and the younger brother of the composer . He graduated from the Department of foreign languages at Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (now

Herzen University Herzen University, or formally the Russian State Pedagogical University in the name of A. I. Herzen (russian: Российский государственный педагогический университет имени А. И. Герце� ...

) (1930). PhD thesis (1939) has been devoted to the works of Jean Paul, doctoral dissertation (1947) - creativity of

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. He taught at the Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and in

; headed the Department of German Philology. Since 1960 until the death he was a fellow of the Institute for Linguistic Studies,

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. In 1964, at the court session on the case of

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he spoke in his defense, commending him as a poet and translator. Since 1984, he published several collections of original poems (some are in

or translated into German by the author); in co-authorship with T. I. Silman - prose memoir «We remember» (1993). He was formed a

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by the Leningrad philology school. He paid great attention to the facts of the history of language; he was the first who used the concept of the field structure in the grammatical analysis.

Main works

Linguistics

* ''Maintenance of the syntax of modern German language'' (russian: Введение в синтаксис современного немецкого языка). M (

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)., 1955. * ''The historic German syntax'' (russian: Исторический синтаксис немецкого языка). M., 1963. * ''Ways of development of grammatical system of the German language'' (russian: Пути развития грамматического строя в немецком языке). M., 1973. * ''Fundamentals of the theory of grammar'' (russian: Основы теории грамматики). M.;L (

)., 1964. * ''The grammatical structure as the build system and the General theory of grammar'' (russian: Грамматический строй как система построения и общая теория грамматики). M., 1988. * ''The system forms of expression of speech'' (russian: Система форм речевого высказывания). SPb (

Saint-Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

)., 1994.

Literary criticism

* ''

'' Essay about creativity. 2-nd issue. L., 1989. * ''

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'' Essay about creativity. L., 1960. (coauthored with T. I. Silman). * ''Poetics and reality: From observations over foreign literature in the XX century'' L., 1975.

References

* Павлов В. М., Шубик С. А. Владимир Григорьевич Адмони (1909—1993) // Известия РАН. СЛЯ, т. 53, No. 3, с. 94–95. * On the website
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Admoni, Vladimir 1909 births 1993 deaths Writers from Saint Petersburg Russian Jews Linguists from the Soviet Union Soviet philologists Soviet poets Soviet literary critics Uppsala University alumni Soviet literary historians Herzen University alumni Members of the Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities