Vladimir Admoni

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. He published a number of own artistic works written in German language or in German translations.

Vladimir Admoni studied at Uppsala University and Herzen University. Vladimir Nedyalkov is recorded as having studied under Vladimir Admoni. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is linguistics, literary studies and German-language literature. Employment is recorded with Institute for Linguistic Studies. Distinctions recorded are Konrad-Duden Prize and Goethe Medal.

• Name — Vladimir Admoni • Born — 29 October 1909 • Birthplace — St.Petersburg, Russian Empire • Died — 26 November 1993 • Place of death — St.Petersburg, Russia • Occupation — linguist, literary critic, translator and poet • Period — 1909-1993 • Subject — Education

Admóni was born in St. Petersburg, the son of the famous historian, publicist and Jewish community leader Gregoriy Yakovlevich Krasniy-Admoni; and the younger brother of the composer 3=Johann Admoni. He graduated from the Department of foreign languages at Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute (now Herzen University) (1930). PhD thesis (1939) has been devoted to the works of Jean Paul, doctoral dissertation (1947) - creativity of Henrik Ibsen. He taught at the Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and in Herzen University; headed the Department of German Philology. Since 1960 until the death he was a fellow of the Institute for Linguistic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences. In 1964, at the court session on the case of Joseph Brodsky he spoke in his defense, commending him as a poet and translator. Since 1984, he published several collections of original poems (some are in German or translated into German by the author); in co-authorship with T. I. Silman - prose memoir «We remember» (1993). Admóni was called a linguist-Germanist by the Leningrad philology school. He paid great attention to the facts of the history of language; he was the first who used the concept of the field structure in the grammatical analysis.

• Maintenance of the syntax of modern German language (. M (Moscow)., 1955. • The historic German syntax (. M., 1963. • Ways of development of grammatical system of the German language (. M., 1973. • Fundamentals of the theory of grammar (Основы теории грамматики). M.;L (Leningrad)., 1964. • The grammatical structure as the build system and the General theory of grammar. M., 1988. • The system forms of expression of speech (. SPb (Saint-Petersburg)., 1994.

Vladimir Admoni worked in linguistics, literary studies, German-language literature and Scandinavian literature. He was employed by Institute for Linguistic Studies. He belonged to USSR Union of Writers and Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Lower Saxony.

Vladimir Admoni is recorded as poet, literary critic, translator, literary historian and linguist.