Eugenio Coșeriu

Eugenio Coșeriu
Born	(1921-07-27)July 27, 1921 Mihăileni, Bălți, Kingdom of Romania (present-day Moldova)
Died	September 7, 2002(2002-09-07) (aged 81) Tübingen, Germany
Nationality	Romania, Germany
Alma mater	University of Iași
Occupation	Professor
Employer(s)	University of Tübingen University of the Republic, Uruguay

Eugenio Coșeriu (Romanian: Eugen Coșeriu, pronounced [e.uˈd͡ʒen koˈʃerju]; July 27, 1921 – September 7, 2002) was a linguist that specialized in Romance languages at the University of Tübingen, author of over 50 books, honorary member of the Romanian Academy.

Biography

Eugenio Coșeriu was born on July 27, 1921 in Mihăileni, a small Romanian town that today lies in the Republic of Moldova. He attended high school in Bălți, where Vadim Pirogan and Sergiu Grossu were his classmates. After his studies at the University of Iași, he went to Italy in 1940 with a scholarship of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and continued to study in Rome, where he earned his PhD in 1944 with a dissertation about the influence of the Chanson de geste on the folk poetry of the southern Slavic peoples. In the years 1944 and 1945 Coșeriu was at the university of Padua, then from 1945 to 1949 at the university of Milan.

Eugenio Coșeriu was active at the University of the Republic, Uruguay as Professor of General and Indo-European Linguistics, and then at the University of Tübingen, Germany.

Honours

• Biblioteca Municipală "Eugeniu Coșeriu", Bălți
• Colocviul Internațional de științe ale Limbajului "Eugeniu Coșeriu"
• "Eugen Coșeriu" High School Mihăileni, Bălți

Selected works

• Template:Es icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, Teoría del lenguaje y lingüística general, Madrid, 1973
• Template:Es icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, Sincronía, diacronía e historia, Madrid, 1973
• Template:Es icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, Principios de semántica estructural, Madrid, 1978.
• Template:Es icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, El hombre y su lenguaje: estudios de teoría y metodología lingüística, Madrid, 1985.
• Template:Es icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, Tradición y novedad en la ciencia del lenguaje, Madrid, 1977.
• Template:Es icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, Gramatica, semántica, universales, Madrid, 1978.
• Template:Ro icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, Lecții de lingvistică generală, Chișinău, ARC Publishing House, 2000.
• Template:Ro icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, "Limbaj și politică", in Revista de lingvistică și știință literară, 5/1996.
• Template:Ro icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, „Latinitatea orientală”, in Limba Română este patria mea. Studii. Comunicări. Documente, Chișinău, 1996, p. 15-31,
• Template:Ro icon Eugeniu Coșeriu, „Unitatea limbii române - planuri și criterii”. Ibidem. p. 205-121.
• Template:En icon Eugeniu Coșeriu and Horst Geckeler. Trends in structural semantics. (Tübinger Beiträge zur Linguistik, 158). Tübingen: Narr. 1981.

External links

• Coseriu Archives at the University of Tübingen
• Evocare Eugeniu Coșeriu
• Liceul Teoretic „Ion Creangă” din Bălți