COSERIU, Eugenio (Eugeniu Coşeriu). Mihăileni, Bălţi (now in Moldova) 27.7.1921 — Tübingen 7.9.2002. Romanian Comparative Linguist in Uruguay and Germany. High school in Bălţi. Studies at Iaşi and from 1940 at Sapienza in Rome. Ph.D. 1944 Rome. In 1944-45 taught at Padova, 1945-49 at Milano (second Ph.D. there in philosophy). In 1950-58 Professor of General and Indo-European Linguistics at the University of the Republic Uruguay in Montevideo, then visiting Professor at Málaga, Navarra and Coimbra. In 1961-63 Gastprofessor at Bonn (also taught at Frankfurt), from 1963 Professor of Romance Linguistics at Tübingen, retired 1991. Member of Heidelberg A.W. 1977, hon. member of Romanian Academy 1991.
Publications: Diss. on the influence of chanson de geste in South Slavic folk poetry. 1944.
– A number of books on linguistics.
Sources: *Logos semantikos. Studia lingüistica in honorem E.C. 1-5. 1981; German and English Wikipedias, both with photo.
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