Henrik Birnbaum
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| Born | December 13, 1925 |
| Died | April 30, 2002 (aged 76) Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
Henrik Maximilian Birnbaum (December 13, 1925 – April 30, 2002) was a German-born American linguist, Slavist, and historian.[1]
Birnbaum was born in Breslau, today's Wrocław, Poland. He received his PhD in Slavic Philology in 1954. He worked as a docent at the Stockholm University in 1958-1961, as an Associate Professor of Slavic languages and literature at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA), and as a tenured professor at the same university in 1964-1994. He was a guest professor at many American and European universities. From 1992 he led the Department of Medieval Studies at Central European University in Budapest.[1]
He authored more than 300 scientific publications in the fields of phonology, dialectology, comparative grammar of Slavic languages, history and culture of the Slavs, 18 of which are books and monographs. Since 1992 he was a regular member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, since 1981 a corresponding member of the Swedish Academy, since 1986 a corresponding member of the Yugoslav Academy of Sciences and Arts, and since 1988 a corresponding member of the Polish Academy of Sciences.[1]
