Boris Ottokar Unbegaun () (1898,

Moscow Moscow is the Capital city, capital and List of cities and towns in Russia by population, largest city of Russia, standing on the Moskva (river), Moskva River in Central Russia. It has a population estimated at over 13 million residents with ...

– 1973) was a Russian-born German

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and

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, expert in

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and

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. He worked in universities of France, Great Britain and the United States. He was a Professor of Slavonic studies at

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and he was succeeded by his student Anne Pennington.

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

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Unbegaun, Boris Ottokar 1898 births 1973 deaths Writers from Moscow People from Moskovsky Uyezd Ethnic German people from the Russian Empire Linguists from France 20th-century American linguists White Russian emigrants to France White Russian emigrants to the United Kingdom White Russian emigrants to the United States Buchenwald concentration camp survivors New York University faculty