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 Bălti. Studies at Iaşi and from 1940 in Rome. Ph.D. 1944 Rome. In 1944-45 taught at Padova, 1945-49 at Milano. In 1950-63 Professor of General and Indo-European Linguistics at the University of the Republic Uruguay (1961-63 as Gastprofessor at Bonn), from 1963 at Tübingen, retired 1991.

Publications: Diss. on the influence of chanson de geste in South Slavic folk poetry. 1944.

– A number of books on linguistics.

Sources: German and English (with photo) Wikipedia.