Alexandru Rosetti

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Alexandru Rosetti
Born(1895-10-20)October 20, 1895
Bucharest, Kingdom of Romania
DiedFebruary 27, 1990(1990-02-27) (aged 94)
EducationUniversity of Bucharest
Occupation(s)linguist, editor, memoirist
Known formodern approaches to research in phonetics, phonology and general, mathematical and structural linguistics
SpouseMaria Rallet
Parents
  • Petre Rosetti Bălănescu (father)
  • Zoe née Cornescu (mother)

Alexandru Rosetti (October 20, 1895 – February 27, 1990) was a Romanian linguist, editor, and memoirist.

Born in

rhotacism in Romanian. He went on to the Sorbonne, submitting two theses in 1926: one on 16th-century Romanian phonetics, and another on Romanian letters from the late 16th and early 17th centuries in the Bistrița archives.[1]

Upon his return home, Rosetti was named associate professor of general and experimental phonetics at Bucharest in 1928. He became full professor in 1932 and secured a tenured position in the Romanian department in 1938, upon the death of Densusianu.[1]

A friend of

Aix-Marseille.[1]

Rosetti promoted modern approaches to research in phonetics, phonology and general, mathematical and structural linguistics. He headed specialist publications such as Bulletin linguistique, Studii și cercetări lingvistice, Fonetică și dialectologie, Revue roumaine de linguistique and Cahiers de linguistique theorique et appliquée. He authored the monumental Istoria limbii române, which appeared in six volumes between 1938 and 1946, and was frequently re-edited; as well as other valuable linguistic works. In the field of literature, he was among the foremost editors of the interwar period and lent support to numerous authors, and also an anthologist (Cronicarii români, 1944; Schiță de istorie socială a limbii române, 1975). However, his main contribution was as a subtle memoirist: Note din Grecia (1938), Diverse (1962), Cartea albă (1968), Călătorii și portrete (1977). Other works touch on problems of a modern approach to literature: Le Mot. Esquisse d'un théorie générale (1943; published in Romanian as Filosofia cuvântului, 1946); Istoria limbii române literare, vol. I (in collaboration), 1966. In 1977, Rosetti published his correspondence with

Romanian Revolution of 1989. Taken to Elias Hospital [ro], he continued making plans for the future during his final days.[8]

He married Maria Rallet, of an old boyar family;

Union of Democratic Women of Romania.[4] Rosetti's research center was named after him in 1992. In 2002, it merged with the Iordan institute to form the Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti Institute of Linguistics.[7]

Notes

  1. ^
    ISBN 973-697-758-7
  2. ^
    ISBN 973-569-209-0
  3. ^ (in Romanian) Rectori at the University of Bucharest site
  4. ^
    ISBN 978-973-50-4219-6
  5. ^ (in Romanian) Membrii Academiei Române din 1866 până în prezent at the Romanian Academy site
  6. ISBN 973-555-199-3
  7. ^ a b (in Romanian) Coordonate istorice at the Iorgu Iordan – Al. Rosetti Institute of Linguistics site
  8. ^ Laurențiu Theban, "Alexandru Rosetti", in Fonetică și dialectologie, vol. 14 (1995), p. 7
  9. ISBN 978-973-790-755-4
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