Efim Etkind (, 26 February 1918,
Petrograd
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– 22 November 1999,
Potsdam
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) was a Soviet
philologist
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and
translation theorist.
Efim Etkind
in the Grand Larousse encyclopédique
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In the 1960s and 1970s he was a dissident
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; from 1974 he lived in France.
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Etkind, Efim
1918 births
1999 deaths
Writers from Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg State University alumni
Russian philologists
Soviet literary historians
Soviet male writers
Soviet dissidents
Soviet translators
Denaturalized citizens of the Soviet Union
Soviet emigrants to France
Soviet Jews
Members of the Bavarian Academy of Sciences
20th-century philologists
Academic staff of Herzen University