Maria Iliescu (1927-2020)
Maria Iliescu (1927-2020)
Author(s): Adriana CostachescuSubject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Applied Linguistics, Political history, Recent History (1900 till today), Special Historiographies:, Interwar Period (1920 - 1939), WW II and following years (1940 - 1949), Post-War period (1950 - 1989)
Published by: Institutul National pentru Studiul Totalitarismului
Keywords: Maria Iliescu; researcher and professor in Romance languages; studies about Friulan; French and Romance characteristics of Romanian;
Summary/Abstract: On January 21, 2020, Prof. Dr. Maria Iliescu passed away (92 years old). One of best European specialist in the field of Romance languages, Maria Iliescu has substantial contributions in the description and classification of the Neo-Latin languages, with a particular focus on French, Friulan, and Romanian (history, characteristic linguistic traits, semantics, and pragmatics). She made clear that several ‘individualities’ of Romanian, sometimes attributed to a linguistic Balkan influence, can be found in earlier phases of some Neo-Latin languages (such as old French) or several Romance dialects (of Italian, Spanish, Rhaeto-Romanic). Maria Iliescu taught mainly at four universities (Bucharest, Craiova, Innsbruck, Trento) but, as visiting or substitute professor, she gave academic courses at the universities of Zurich (Switzerland), Kiel, Munich, Düsseldorf, Köln (Germany), Gant (Belgium). She supervised an important number of graduation thesis and doctoral dissertations. She was Vice-president (2001-2007) and then President (2007-2010) of the Société Internationale de Linguistique Romane (Strasburg).
Journal: Arhivele Totalitarismului
- Issue Year: XXVIII/2020
- Issue No: 1-2
- Page Range: 259-261
- Page Count: 3
- Language: Romanian
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