Boris Unbegaun Explained

Boris Ottokar Unbegaun (Russian: Бори́с Ге́нрихович Унбега́ун|Boris Genrikhovich Unbegaun) (1898, Moscow – 1973) was a Russian-born German linguist and philologist, expert in Slavic studies: Slavic languages and literature. He worked in universities of France, Great Britain and the United States.^{[1] [2] [3]}

He was a Professor of Slavonic studies at Oxford University and he was succeeded by his student Anne Pennington.^{[4] [5] [6]}

Major works

• La langue russe au XVIe siècle (1500—1550). — Paris: Inst. d'Études Slaves de l’Univ. de Paris, 1935.
• Les débuts de la langue littéraire chez les Serbes. — Paris: Champion, 1935.
• Grammaire russe. — Lyon-Paris, IAC, 1951 (English translation: Russian grammar. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957; German translation: Russische Grammatik. — Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1969)
• L’Origine du nom des Ruthènes. — Winnipeg: Acad. ukrainienne libre des sciences, 1953.
• A bibliographical guide to the Russian language. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1953.
• Russian versification. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1956.
• Drei russische Grammatiken des 18. Jahrhunderts. Nachdr. der Ausg. von 1706, 1731 und 1750. — München: Fink, 1969.
• Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics. — New York: New York University Press., 1969.
• Selected papers on Russian and Slavonic philology. — Oxford: Clarendon Press 1969.
• Russian surnames. — Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. Russian translation: Унбегаун Б.-О. Русские фамилии. — Moscow: Progress Publisher, 1989

Notes and References

1. Robert Magidoff; George Y. Shevelov; J. S. G. Simmons, J.S.G.; Kiril Taronovski (Hrsg.), Studies in Slavic Linguistics and Poetics in Honour of Boris O. Unbegaun, New York, New York University Press 1968
2. https://portal.dnb.de/opac.htm;jsessionid=1Gk-GuKnuR3EWX_VMvVsq6Q4raKRJPj3qONFYn9h.prod-fly1?method=showFullRecord&currentResultId=%22120102366%22%26any&currentPosition=7 Unbegaun, Boris Ottokar
3. http://oasis.lib.harvard.edu/oasis/deliver/~hou02033 Tsvetaeva, Marina, 1892-1941. Marina Tsvetaeva letters to Boris Ottokar Unbegaun, 1935-1938: Guide
4. Pennington, Anne Elizabeth (1934–1981), Slavonic philologist Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. 2004. en. 10.1093/ref:odnb/65494. 2019-04-06.
5. News: Boris Unbegaun, N.y.u. Professor. 1973-03-06. The New York Times. 2020-04-08. en-US. 0362-4331.
6. Drage and Pennington. C.L. and Anne. July 1973. Boris Ottokar Unbegaun (1898-1973). The Slavonic and East European Review. 51. 124. 448–451. 4206751.