Vladimir Admoni
Russian linguist, literary critic, translator
Died when: 84 years 28 days (1008 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Vladímir Admóni (Russian: ???????? ??????????? ??????) (October 29, 1909, St.Petersburg, Russia - 26 November 1993, St.Petersburg, Russia) was a Soviet linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, doctor of philological Sciences (1947), Professor (1948).
Correspondent member of Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, doctor honoris causa at the University of Uppsala.President of the Bureau of the section of literary translation of the Leningrad (now St.
Petersburg) branch of USSR (now Russian Federation).He wrote numerous works of the German language, the theory of grammar, essays about German and Scandinavian literature.
Verses, prose memoir, poetic and prose translations from German and the Scandinavian languages to Russian (many co-authored with his wife, T.
I.Silman).He published a number of own artistic works written in German language or in German translations.