Nationality Romania,Germany Alma mater University of Iasi Religion Eastern Orthodoxy Role Author | Ethnicity Romanian Name Eugenio Coseriu | |
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Education Alexandru Ioan Cuza University Books Trends in Structural Semantics, Sprache und Funktionalitat Bei Fernao De Oliverra Employer University of Tubingen, University of the Republic | ||
Eugenio Coșeriu (Romanian: Eugen Coșeriu, [e.uˈd͡ʒen koˈʃerju]; July 27, 1921 – September 7, 2002) was a linguist who specialized in Romance languages at the University of Tübingen, author of over 50 books, honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
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Biography
Eugenio Coșeriu was born on July 27, 1921 in Mihăileni, a small Romanian town that today lies in the Republic of Moldova. He attended high school in Bălți, where Vadim Pirogan and Sergiu Grossu were his classmates. After his studies at the University of Iași, he went to Italy in 1940 with a scholarship of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and continued to study in Rome, where he earned his PhD in 1944 with a dissertation about the influence of the Chanson de geste on the folk poetry of the southern Slavic peoples. In the years 1944 and 1945 Coșeriu was at the university of Padua, then from 1945 to 1949 at the university of Milan.
Eugenio Coșeriu was active at the University of the Republic, Uruguay as Professor of General and Indo-European Linguistics, and then at the University of Tübingen, Germany.