This mysterious Boyanus
DOI:10.30842/alp2306573714116
Svetozarova N. D. Etot tainstvennyy
Boyanus. Acta Linguistica Petropolitana. 464.
The life of Semjon Karlovič Boyanus
(1871–1952) was long and so productive that one might think that
Boyanus was several authors’ nom-de-plume. A graduate of St.
Petersburg University, Boyanus was an actor and theatre director;
he studied the history of theatre and worked at the Institute of
the History of Arts; he was Lev Vladimirovič Ščerba’s student of
phonetics and Ščerba’s co-organizer of the Institute of Phonetics.
In the 1920s, he studied phonetics in London, under Daniel Jones
and Lilias Eveline Armstrong. Later on, he taught various subjects
of the Germanic cycle at Leningrad State University and published
the first textbook of English phonetics for speakers of Russian
(1926). He was Vladimir Karlovič Mueller’s co-editor of
English-Russian and Russian-English dictionaries. In 1934, Boyanus
left for Great Britain, where he established School of Russian and
published a manual of Russian phonetics that combined the
achievements of Russian and British phonetic science.
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