Milan Budimir
Milan Budimir | |
|---|---|
| Милан Будимир | |
| Born | November 2, 1891 Jurkovo Selo,Žumberak,Austro-Hungarian Empire |
| Died | 17 October 1975(aged 84) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | University of Vienna(PhD) |
Milan Budimir(Serbian Cyrillic:Милан Будимир;2 November 1891 – 17 October 1975) was a distinguishedSerbianclassical scholar,professor, philosopher and Chair of the Department of Classical Philology.
Life
[edit]Budimir was born inMrkonjić Grad,Austria-Hungary(now inRepublika Srpska,Bosnia and Herzegovina). He studied Classical Philology at theUniversity of Vienna,where he received his PhD in 1920.[1]He was appointed an assistant that same year and soon the assistant professor at the Department of theUniversity of Belgrade Faculty of Philosophy,before being appointed senior lecturer in 1928 and full professor in 1938.[2][3]As the professor and the head of the Department of the Classical Philology, he worked until retirement in 1962, with interruptions during the German occupation inWorld War II.
As a researcher of high rank, he was elected a corresponding member of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Art in 1948 and became a regular member of the same Academy in 1955. Budimir died in Belgrade on 17 October 1975.[4]
Milan Budimir did research in the field of classical philology in all its branches: history of classical languages, especiallyOld Greek,history of Old GreekandRoman literature.He also did research of the Old Balkan andSlavic languages,thehistory of religion,the heritage of the classical period in Serbia and Balkans, especially in language, literature andfolklore,as well as the research in the field oflinguistics.
He started and edited the Balkan magazineRevue internationale des Études balkaniquesalong withPetar Skokbetween the wars.[3]Budimir was a founder and co-editor of the former main journal of Yugoslav philologistsThe Living Classical Periodswith the most distinguished Yugoslav classical philologists.
Currents of pre-Indo-European Researches
[edit]The scientific opus of Milan Budimir includes several hundreds of works, books, studies, treatises and articles which may be divided into five big groups.
The firstgroup consists of the works dealing with the research of pre-classical languages and cultures in theBalkans,Asia Minorand theApennines.[5]Milan Budimir's chief merit in this field relates to the gathering and explaining of the voluminous lexical material of the languages of thepre-GreekIndo- Europeans, as well as to the establishing of the phonetic laws of these languages.[2]
According to the literary tradition, these, pre- Greek ancients are called thePelasgians(Πελασγοί), but Milan Budimir calls them (Πελάσται), proceeding from the form Πελαστικέ (which appears in the scholias ofHomer'sIliad16, 223), from the onomastic material in the field (Παλαιστή, toponym inEpirus;Palaestinus, older name forStrymonetc.), as well as from some common nouns proved by evidence (Πενέσται, name for the conquered population in classicalThessaly;Πελάσται, name for the farmers bound to the land inAttic).
The secondgroup consists of the works presenting the research concerning special relations between thepre-Greekidioms and theSlavonic languages;more precisely, the ProtoSlavonic language.[2]
The thirdgroup consists of the works dealing with the research of the general phonetic laws of theIndo-European languages,especially of the languages in contact.[2]
The fourthgroup consists of the works dealing with the research in the field of classical literature, with special emphasis on the pre-Greek origin of some literary genres and the European scene.[2]
The fifthgroup consists of the works researching the cultural relations in the folklore of theSouth Slavsand the classical peoples; these works are in close connection with the second group of Budimir's works.[2]
Selected works
[edit]Milan Budimir presented and published results of his research which entered the best-known dictionaries and reference books in more than two hundred articles, discussions, studies and books with the following being the most important (titles given in English do not necessarily mean that an actual English translation has been published):
- From the Classical and Contemporary Aloglotty(1933)
- On theIliadand its Poet(1940)
- Grci i Pelasgi( "The Greeks and the Pelasgians" ), Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences, Department of Literature and Language, book 2, Belgrade (1950)
- The Problem of Beech and Protoslav Homeland(1951)
- Pelasto - Slavica(1956)
- Die Sprache als Schopfoung und Entwicklung(1957)
- Protoslavica(1958)
- Zur psychologischen Einheit unserer Ilias(1963)
- From the Balkan Sources(1969)
References
[edit]- ^"Milan Budimir".Onomastica Jugoslavica.6–8.Razred za filologiju: 263. 1976.
- ^abcdefCrepajac, Ljiljana (1997). "Pelastian Proto-Slavonic Relations According to the Researches of Milan Budimir".Serbian Literary Magazine.Serbian Writers Association, International October Meeting of Writers, Yugoslav Authors Agency--Serbian Department, and Serbian P.E.N. Centre. pp. 29–31, 187.
- ^abTrencsényi, Balázs; Iordachi, Constantin; Apor, Péter, eds. (2021).The Rise of Comparative History.Central European University Press. p. 333.ISBN9789633863626.
- ^"Budimir Milan".sanu.ac.rs.Serbian Academy of Arts and Sciences.
- ^Археографија народа Југоисточне Европе: сведочанства казивања о југоисточно европским народим именима, према списима древних повесница и њихова културна историја.2006.ISBN9788670560154.
