Efim Etkind (russian: Ефи́м Григо́рьевич Э́ткинд, 26 February 1918,
Petrograd – 22 November 1999,
Potsdam
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) was a Soviet
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 ...
and
translation theorist.
Efim Etkind
in the Grand Larousse encyclopédique In the 1960s and 1970s he was a dissident
A dissident is a person who actively challenges an established political or religious system, doctrine, belief, policy, or institution. In a religious context, the word has been used since the 18th century, and in the political sense since the 20th ...
; from 1974 he lived in France.
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1918 births
1999 deaths
Writers from Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Russian philologists
Soviet literary historians
Soviet male writers
20th-century male writers
Soviet dissidents
20th-century translators
People denaturalized by the Soviet Union
Soviet emigrants to France
Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
20th-century philologists
Academic staff of Herzen University