Fanny de Sivers
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Fanny de Sivers(maiden name:Isak;20 October 1920 – 22 June 2011) was an Estonianlinguist,literature researcher, andessayist.[1]
Biography
[edit]Fanny de Sivers was born inPärnu.She studied humanities and arts at theUniversity of Tartufrom (1938 to 1941), left Estonia and moved toGermanyin 1941, marrying von Sivers. She studied at the universities ofBreslau,WürzburgandInnsbruckand acquired theacademic degreeoflicensein Paris and Lund.
Beginning in 1949, Sivers lived inFrance,where she worked as an interpreter and secretary at state institutions, and from 1964 to 1986 she worked as linguist at theFrench National Centre for Scientific Research.She was a visiting professor at the University of Tartu from 1993–1994.[2]
She published numerous articles on language studies and literature; she also translated works of Estonian authors into French and vice versa. Numerous collections of her articles and essays have been published in Estonia since the end of Soviet regime.
Fanny de Sivers was a devotedChristian.She died inEaubonne,nearParis.
References
[edit]- ^Rein, Veidemann (26 October 2009)."Postimees: Fanny de Sivers mõtleb vananemise käsiraamatule"(in Estonian). Postimees. Archived fromthe originalon 27 March 2008.Retrieved12 March2011.
- ^"Fanny de Sivers"(in Estonian). Logos. Archived fromthe originalon 20 July 2011.Retrieved12 March2011.
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