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Simon Charles Boyanus
Simon Charles Boyanus
Семён Карлович Боянус
Born	Semyón Kárlovich Boyánus; 8 July 1871; Moscow, Russian Empire
Died	19 July 1952 (aged 81); London, England
Nationality	Russian
Other names	С. Броневский
Education	St. Petersburg University
Occupation	Phonetician
Employers	Leningrad State University; School of Slavonic Studies of the University of London; Boyanus School of Russian;
Spouse	Lilias Armstrong (m. 1926⁠–⁠1937)

Semyon Karlovich Boyanus,^[a] also known as as Simon Charles Boyanus,Cite error: There are <ref> tags on this page without content in them (see the help page). (8 July 1871 – 19 July 1952^[4]) was a Russian phonetician who worked in England.^[5]^[6]^[7]

He also worked under the alias S. Bronevsky^[b] (С. Броневский).^[9]

Family and early life[edit]

Boyanus was born in Moscow on 8 July, 1871.^[4] His father was Carl Heinrich Bojanus (1818–1897),^[c] and his mother was Olga Semyonovna Khlyustina (1837–1910).^[d]^[12] Simon had two older brothers and two younger sisters; he also had three older half-brothers from his father's first marriage and one older half-sister from his mother's first marriage.^[13]

Carl Heinrich Bojanus was the nephew of the physician and naturalist Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus.^[14]

Personal life[edit]

Theater[edit]

Under the name "S. Bronevsky (Boyanus)", he wrote О форме в сценическом творчестве^[e] ("On form in scenic art"^[16]) as a supplement to Art and Printing Magazine [ru], published in Kyiv.^[17] It was published around 1910^[17] or 1914.^[18]

Boyanus taught at the State Institute for Art History [ru] in the Department of Theater History. He became a professor on May 24, 1920. Boyanus became a full member of the Department of the History of Medieval Theatre in 1921, and of the Department of History of the Verbal Arts in 1927. Subjects he taught included English and French mystery plays and stage speech.^[19]

Work on English[edit]

In 1918, he passed the English philology master's examination at Petrograd University's Faculty of History and Philology; he subsequently taught there.^[19]

Among Boyanus's students at Petrograd–Leningrad University was Dmitry Likhachov.^[20] Boyanus taught him English phonetics and Middle English poetry,^[21] and also was his thesis advisor, which was on Shakespearean theatre in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Russia.^[22]

Boyanus School of Russian[edit]

Monica Partridge studied at the Boyanus School of Russian from 1940 to 1943. She then taught there from 1943 to 1947.^[23]

Death[edit]

Boyanus died of heart failure on 19 July 1952.^[24] The Boyanus School of Russian had to close due to his death.^[24] He died at St. Thomas's Hospital.^[25]

Daniel Jones wrote his obituary for Le Maître Phonétique.^[26]^[6]

Monica Partridge wrote his obituary for The Slavonic and East European Review.^[7]

Boris Unbegaun wrote his obituary for Revue des études slaves.^[27]

He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 23 July.^[25]

Selected works[edit]

A more complete list of works can be found in Svetozarova (2018, pp. 484–486).

Bronevskīĭ (Boi͡anus"), S. (c. 1910). O formi͡e v" st͡senicheskom" tvorchestvi͡e О формѣ въ сценическомъ творчествѣ (in Russian). [Kiev].

Boi͡anus, S. K. (1926). Postanovka angliĭskogo proiznoshenii͡a Постановка английского произношения [Basics of English pronunciation] (in Russian). Vol. 1–2. Leningrad: Sovremennik.
M︠i︡uller, V. K.; Boi͡anus, S. K. (1928). Anglo-russkiĭ slovar' Англо-русский словарь [English–Russian dictionary] (in Russian). Moskva: Sovetskaya entsiklopediya.
Boyanus, S. K.; M︠i︡uller, V. K. (1930). Russko–angliĭskiĭ slovarʹ Русско–английский словарь [Russian–English dictionary] (in Russian). Moskva: Sovetskaya entsiklopediya.
Boyanus, S. C. (1935). A Manual of Russian Pronunciation. London: Sidgwick and Jackson.
Boyanus, S. C.; Jopson, N. H. (1939). Spoken Russian: A Practical Course. London: Sidgick and Jackson.
Boyanus, S. C. (1943–1947). Conversational Narratives Illustrating Spoken Russian. Vol. 1–3. London: The Boyanus School of Russian.
Boyanus, S. C. (1955). Russian Pronunciation. London: Lund Humphries.

Notes[edit]

^ Russian: Семён Карлович Боянус, IPA: [sʲɪˈmʲɵn ˈkarɫəvʲɪt͡ɕ bɐˈjanʊs]. His name sometimes appears as Semen Karlovič Boyanus,^[1] Semen Karlovitch Bojanus,^[2] or S. K. Boianus.^[3]
^ This name sometimes appears as S. Bronevski.^[8]
^ He was also known by the patronymic form of his name Karl Karlovich Boyanus (Russian: Карл Карлович Боянус).^[10]
^ Russian: Ольга Семёновна Хлюстина,^[11]
^ In pre-1917 orthography, the title is О формѣ въ сценическомъ творчествѣ.^[15]

Citations[edit]

^ Unbegaun (1953), p. 328; Asher (1994), p. 395.
^ Edel (2011), p. 73; Edel (2013), p. 98.
^ David-Fox (2012), p. 95; Martynov & Klein (1971), p. 279; Chudakov (1985), p. 122.
^ ^a ^b Edel (2013), p. 98.
^ Asher (1994).
^ ^a ^b Jones (1952).
^ ^a ^b Partridge (1953).
^ Droznin (2017).
^ Svetozarova (2018), pp. 466–467; Svetozarova (2019), p. 121.
^ Edel (2011), p. 71; Svetozarova (2019), p. 121
^ Svetozarova (2018), p. 466; Edel (2013), p. 97.
^ Edel (2013), p. 97.
^ Edel (2013), pp. 97–98.
^ Edel (2011), p. 71; Edel (2013), p. 96–97.
^ Bronevskīĭ (Boi͡anus") (c. 1910), Title page.
^ Droznin (2008), p. 37.
^ ^a ^b Svetozarova (2018), p. 467.
^ Droznin (2017), p. 37.
^ ^a ^b Svetozarova (2018), p. 468.
^ Svetozarova (2018), p. 469.
^ Likhachev (2000), p. 26,59.
^ Likhachev (2000), p. 124.
^ Jones (2009), p. 40.
^ ^a ^b Jones (1952), p. 20.
^ ^a ^b Daily Telegraph (1952).
^ Collins & Mees (1999), p. 399
^ Unbegaun (1953).

References[edit]

Asher, R. E. (1994). "Boyanus, Simon Charles (1871–1952)". In Asher, R. E. (ed.). The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Vol. 1. Oxford: Pergamon. pp. 395–396. ISBN 0-08-035943-4.
Collins, Beverly; Mees, Inger M. (1999). The Real Professor Higgins: The Life and Career of Daniel Jones. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. doi:10.1515/9783110812367. ISBN 978-3-11-081236-7.
Chudakov, A. P. (1985). "V. V. Vinogradov and the Theory of Literary Language in the First Third of the Twentieth Century". Soviet Studies in Literature. 21 (3–4): 91–151. doi:10.2753/RSL1061-197521030491.
[The Daily Telegraph staff] (21 July 1952). "Deaths". The Daily Telegraph. No. 30,279. p. 8.
[The Daily Telegraph staff] (18 February 1924). "The Week's Arrangements: Friday". The Daily Telegraph. No. 21,472. p. 6.
David-Fox, Michael (2012). "Going West: Soviet 'Cultural' Operations Abroad". Showcasing the Great Experiment: Cultural Diplomacy and Western Visitors to the Soviet Union, 1921–1941. Oxford: Oxford University Press. pp. 61–97. doi:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199794577.003.0003. ISBN 978-0-19-979457-7.
Droznin, Andrei (2017). "The actor's external technique (conclusion)". Physical Actor Training: What Shall I Do with the Body They Gave Me?. Translated by Fedorova, Natalia. London: Routledge. pp. 28–37. doi:10.4324/9781315697635. ISBN 9781317450443.
Edel, Philippe (2011). "La saga des Bojanus – De Bouxwiller vers la Russie, les pays baltes et l'Ukraine" (PDF). Saisons d'Alsace (in French). 47: 70–73. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-11.
Edel, Philippe (2013). "Contribution à la généalogie de la famille Bojanus" (PDF). Bulletin du Cercle Généalogique d'Alsace (in French). 182: 95–98. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-16.
Galazzi, Enrica (2014). "Présence de la Russie dans le réseau phonétique international (1886–1940)". In Kasevich, Vadim; Kleiner, Yuri; Sériot, Patrick (eds.). History of Linguistics 2011. Studies in the History of the Language Sciences (in French). Vol. 123. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. pp. 201–2011. doi:10.1075/sihols.123.18gal. ISBN 978-90-272-4614-1.
Jones, Daniel (July–December 1952). "Simon Boyanus†". artiklə də fɔ̃. Le Maître Phonétique. 3rd Ser. 98 (98): 20–22. JSTOR 44749279.
Jones, Malcolm V. (2009). "Virgin Soil Upturned". Slavianskii mir: The Story of Slavonic Studies at the University of Nottingham in the Twentieth Century. Ilkeston: Bramcote Press. pp. 21–45. ISBN 978-1-900405-16-4.
Likhachev, Dmitry S. (2000). Reflections on the Russian Soul: A Memoir. Translated by Adams, Bernard. Budapest: Central European University Press. ISBN 963-9116-46-7 – via Google Books.
Martynov, I. F.; Klein, T. P. (1971). "On the History of Literary Organizations in the First Soviet Years: (The Petrograd Writers' House, 1918–1922)". Soviet Studies in Literature. 7 (4): 267–289. doi:10.2753/RSL1061-19750704267.
Partridge, Monica (1953). "Simon Boyanus: 1871–1952". The Slavonic and East European Review. 31 (77): 534–536. JSTOR 4204470.
Svetozarova, Natalia (2018). "This mysterious Boyanus" Этот таинственный Боянус [This mysterious Boyanus]. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana (in Russian). 14 (1): 464–486. doi:10.30842/alp2306573714116.
Svetozarova, Natalia D. (2019). Из истории отечественного языкознания: жизнь и труды С. К. Боянуса [On the History of Russian Linguistics: The Life and the Work of Simon Boyanus]. Russian Speech Русская речь (in Russian). 2 (2): 119–128. doi:10.31857/S013161170004471-7. S2CID 166890888. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2020-07-02.
Unbegaun, Boris Ottokar (1953). "Semen Karlovič Boyanus". Nécrologie. Revue des études slaves (in French). 30: 328. JSTOR 43295144.