Marco Mincoff

Marco Mincoff
Born	(1909-07-15)15 July 1909 O.S. Samokov, Kingdom of Bulgaria
Died	10 July 1987(1987-07-10) (aged 77) Sofia, People's Republic of Bulgaria
Resting place	Sofia Central Cemetery
Citizenship	Bulgaria
Occupation(s)	scholar educator
Employer	Sofia University
Spouse	Gerda Fredericke Elizabeth Tesche
Children	two daughters
Parent(s)	Constantin Mincoff (father) Elizabeth Marriage (mother)
Relatives	Ellen Marriage (aunt)
Academic background
Alma mater	Sofia University Berlin University
Thesis	Die Bedeutungsentwicklung der ags. Ausdrücke für 'Kraft' und 'Macht' (1933)

In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Constantinov and the family name is Mincoff.

Marco Constantinov Mincoff, better known as Marco Mincoff (1909-1987) was a Bulgarian scholar on Shakespeare and professor of English Studies at the University of Sofia.

Marco Mincoff was born on 15 July 1909 O.S. (28 July 1909 N.S.) in Chamkorya (now Samokov, Bulgaria) in the family of the Bulgarian diplomat Constantin Mincoff and his English wife Mary de: Elizabeth Mincoff-Marriage, who was a philologist and folk songs collector of her own right. With a Humboldt grant he completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Berlin in 1933. From 1951 to 1974 he was head of the department of English at the University of Sofia. Over the years, teaching courses in grammar, phonetics, stylistics and the history of English literature, he wrote various textbooks and monographs. However his main subject was English Renaissance drama, on which he wrote numerous articles. His work earned him recognition and he became a member of the editorial boards of Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Quarterly, Shakespeare Studies, and a few other learned journals. In 1966 the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham awarded him an honorary title. A commemorative volume containing some biographical material and facsimile reproductions of twenty five of his papers appeared in 2009 on the occasion of the hundredth year of his birth.

Works

• Christopher Marlowe: a study of his development (Sofia, 1937)
• Shakespeare: life & works (in Bulgarian) (1946; 2nd. ed. Sofia: Rollis Press, 1992)
• "Baroque Literature in England". Годишник на Софийския университет. Историко-филологически факултет/ Annuaire de l'Université de Sofia. Faculté Historico-philologique. 43: 1–71. 1947. repr. in Limon, Jerzy; Halio, Jay L., eds. (1993). Shakespeare and his contemporaries: Eastern and Central European Studies. Newark, London and Toronto: University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses. pp. 11-69 – via Internet Archive.
• An English Grammar (Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1950)
• English Historical Grammar (Sofia, 1955)
• An Introduction to English Phonetics (1960; 3rd. ed. Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1973)
• Mincoff, Marco (1967). "Shakespeare, Fletcher and Baroque Tragedy". In Muir, Kenneth (ed.). Shakespeare Survey: An Annual Survey of Shakespearian Study and Production. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 1-15 – via Internet Archive.
• Mincoff, Marco (1967). "What Shakespeare Did to Rosalynde". In Halio, Jay L. (ed.). Twentieth Century Interpretations of AS YOU LIKE IT: A Collection of Critical Essays. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall. pp. 98-106 – via Internet Archive.
• A Study of Style (1965; 2nd. ed. Sofia: Pleiada, 1998)
• A History of English Literature Parts I and II (1970; 3rd. ed. Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1998)
• Shakespeare: the first steps (Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1976)
• Things Supernatural and Causeless: Shakespearean Romance (2nd ed.). Newark, London and Toronto: University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses. 1992. ISBN 0-87413-456-0 – via Internet Archive.
• Studies in English Renaissance Drama (Sofia University Press, 2009)ISBN 978-954-07-2977-0

External links

• Works by or about Marco Mincoff at the Internet Archive