Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky was a Russian literary historian and linguist. He was a professor at universities in Saratov and Leningrad, and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a representative of Russian formal studies, though in certain respects he was less inclined to accept formalism as sufficient for all literary analysis.

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  • Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky was a Russian literary historian and linguist. He was a professor at universities in Saratov and Leningrad, and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a representative of Russian formal studies, though in certain respects he was less inclined to accept formalism as sufficient for all literary analysis. His critique of the ahistorical nature of formalism, in the introduction to his translation of Oskar Walzel's Die künstlerische Form des Dichtwerkes (1919) helped speed the end of Russian formalism's initial phase, as critics began to accommodate their work to the developing ideology of the Soviet regime. Though originally trained in German Romanticism, he started to research the epics of the Asian people of the Soviet Union after he was settled in Tashkent following the evacuation of Leningrad. In particular, he studied the akyn of Kazakh and Kyrgyz culture This research created a foundation that allowed Eleazar M. Meletinskii to make his considerations on the relations between myth and epos. In April 1948, Zhirmunsky was among the scholars and critics who recanted their supposed "comparativism" and "Veselovskyism" in Andrei Zhdanov's purge of that year. "Comparativism," or the study of possible borrowing and dissemination of motifs and stories among cultures, was deprecated. In response, Zhirmunsky developed a historical-typological theory, according to which such similarities arose not from historical influence but rather from a similarity of social and cultural institutions.
  • Wiktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski war ein russischer Philologe, Dialektologe und Germanist jüdischer Herkunft.
  • Ви́ктор Макси́мович Жирму́нский — российский лингвист и литературовед, профессор, доктор филологических наук, академик АН СССР, почётный член Баварской, Британской, Саксонской и других академий, почётный доктор многих университетов. Труды по немецкой и общей диалектологии, истории германских языков, теории грамматики, тюркологии, истории немецкой и английской литературы, сравнительному литературоведению, теории эпоса, стиховедению; ряд работ написан по-немецки или опубликован в немецких переводах.
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  • Schirmunski, Wiktor Maximowitsch; Жирмунский, Виктор Максимович (Russian)
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  • Russian literary historian, linguist
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  • Viktor Maksimovich Zhirmunsky was a Russian literary historian and linguist. He was a professor at universities in Saratov and Leningrad, and a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. He is a representative of Russian formal studies, though in certain respects he was less inclined to accept formalism as sufficient for all literary analysis.
  • Wiktor Maximowitsch Schirmunski war ein russischer Philologe, Dialektologe und Germanist jüdischer Herkunft.
  • Ви́ктор Макси́мович Жирму́нский — российский лингвист и литературовед, профессор, доктор филологических наук, академик АН СССР, почётный член Баварской, Британской, Саксонской и других академий, почётный доктор многих университетов.
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