Oswald Szemerényi, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Oswald Szemerényi

Hungarian linguist

Date of Birth: 07-Sep-1913

Place of Birth: London

Date of Death: 29-Dec-1996

Profession: university teacher, linguist, Indo-Europeanist, etymologist

Nationality: Hungary

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Oswald Szemerényi

  • Oswald John Louis Szemerényi (Hungarian pronunciation: ['s?m?re??i]; 7 September 1913 in London – 29 December 1996 in Freiburg) was a Hungarian Indo-Europeanist with strong interests in comparative linguistics in general. He was educated in Hungary, at Eötvös Loránd University, and he studied at the universities of Heidelberg and Berlin.
  • He was influenced by Hungarian linguist Gyula Laziczius.
  • In 1942 he was appointed lecturer in Greek at Budapest University.
  • In 1944 he habilitated with a thesis on Balto-Slavic unity, and in 1947 he was appointed professor of comparative Indo-European linguistics in Budapest.
  • He returned to England in 1948, where he worked for Bedford College until 1960.
  • He was professor of linguistics at Freiburg University from 1965 to 1981.
  • He founded the Freiburg Linguistics Circle, influenced by the Budenz Circle, led by Josef Budenz, the founder of Finno-Ugric studies.

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