Background
USPENSKY, Boris was born on March 1, 1937 in Moscow. Son of Andrej Uspensky and Gustava Mekler.
linguist structuralist critic and semiotician
USPENSKY, Boris was born on March 1, 1937 in Moscow. Son of Andrej Uspensky and Gustava Mekler.
Graduate, Moscow University, 1960. Doctor of Philosophy, Moscow University, 1963. Doctor of Letters, Moscow University, 1972.
Doctor(honorary), Russian State University Humanities, 2001. Doctor(honorary), Konstantin Preslavsky University, Shumen, 2003.
Research fellow Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, 1963—1965. Senior research fellow Moscow University, 1965—1977, professor, 1977—1992. Fellow, Institute Advanced Studies, Russian State University Humanities, 1992—1993.
Professor Oriental University, Naples, Italy, since 1993. Visiting professor Vienna University, 1988, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1990—1991, Graz University, Austria, 1992, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, 1994, University Italian Switzerland, Lugano, 1997—2004.
(Soviet Union, USSR, Bolshevik)
Author: (book) Structural Typology of Languages, 1965, Poetics of Composition, 1970, The First Russian Grammar in the Native Language, 1975, The Semiotics of the Russian Icon, 1976, Philological Investigation of Slavic Antiquites, 1982, The History of Russian Literary Language, 1987, Selected Writings, Volunteer I-III, 1996-1997, Tsar and Patriarch, 1998, Essays in Russian History, 2002.
Of Laboratory of Computational Linguistics, Moscow University 1965-1977, Professor, Moscow University since 1977. Austrian Academy, of Science since 1987.
Married Tatjana Vladyshevskaja, 1985. Married Galina Korshunova, 1963 (deceased 1978). Children: Ivan, Fedor.