Sergey Averintsev Explained

Sergey Sergeyevich Averintsev (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Аверинцев, December 10, 1937, in Moscow – February 21, 2004, in Vienna) was a Russian literary scholar, Byzantinist and Slavist.

Biography

Averintsev was the son of the biologist Sergey Vasilyevich Averintsev. He studied classical philology in Moscow and received in 1967 with a thesis on Plutarch the title of Candidate of the Sciences.[1] In 1979, he became a Doctor of Sciences with a thesis on Byzantine poetry.[2]

He first worked as an editor, then from 1966 to 1971 at the Institute of Art Science of the Academy of Sciences. From 1971 to 1991, he was a member of the Gorki Institute for World Literature.[3] [4] In 1989, he became a professor at the Institute of the World Culture of the Moscow Lomonosov University.[5] In 1994, he was appointed to the University of Vienna,[6] [7] where he was a full professor of East Slavonic literature until his death. Averintsev was from 1987 corresponding, from 2003 full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[8] He was awarded the Lenin Komsomol Prize in 1968, the State Prize of the Soviet Union in 1990, and the State Prize of the Russian Federation in 1996. In 1994, he became a member of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences.[9] In 1995, he was awarded the Dr. Leopold Lucas Prize for his essay "Die Solidarität in dem verfemten Gott. Die Erfahrung der Sowjetjahre als Mahnung für die Gegenwart und Zukunft".[10]

In addition to his works in the field of ancient philology, Averintsev became known above all through studies of the Russian poetry of the Silver Age.

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Notes and References

  1. Published as Аверинцев С.С. Плутарх и античная биография. К вопросу о месте классика жанра в истории жанра. Москва, 1973 [Averintsev S.S. Plutarch and Ancient biography. On the question of the place held by a classic of the genre in the history of the genre]
  2. Published as Аверинцев С.С. Поэтика ранневизантийской литературы. Москва, 1977 [Averintsev S.S. Poetics of Early Byzantine literature]; translated in Italian as Averincev S. L'anima e lo specchio. L'universo della poetica bizantina. Bologna, 1988
  3. Marchadier, B. Serge Averintsev - la philologie comme retour au Logos, in S. Averintsev, La sagesse et ses formes: Conception de la Sophia et sens de l'icône. (Paris, 2011), 9
  4. Epstein, M. Sergei Averintsev (1937–2004)
  5. http://otipl.philol.msu.ru/~imk/structure/dep-christianity/averintsev/ Сергей Сергеевич Аверинцев (1937-2004)
  6. Marchadier, B. Serge Averintsev - la philologie comme retour au Logos, in S. Averintsev, La sagesse et ses formes: Conception de la Sophia et sens de l'icône. (Paris, 2011), 10
  7. Epstein, M. Sergei Averintsev (1937–2004)/
  8. http://www.ras.ru/win/db/show_per.asp?P=.id-2587.ln-ru.dl-.pr-inf.uk-11|title=Аверинцев Сергей Сергеевич Аверинцев
  9. http://www.pass.va/content/scienzesociali/en/academicians/deceased/averintsev.html Serguei Averintsev
  10. Book: Die Solidarität in dem verfemten Gott . 9783161465406 . Lucas-Preis . 1996 . 1995 . Mohr Siebeck .