The Author: Henrik Birnbaum, Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of California, Los Angeles, has authored numerous books, monographs, and essays in the fields of Slavic, Balkan, and Indo-European linguistics, language typology and linguistic theory, Early Slavic civilization, medieval Russian history, and modern Russian and German literature. He is a corresponding member of the Swedish, Yugoslav, and Polish Academies of Sciences, an honorary member of Phi Beta Kappa, and was the 1985 UCLA Faculty Research Lecturer.
Once again a collection of Henrik Birnbaum's essays has brought out the immense scope of his erudition. Birnbaum's encyclopedic knowledge of the sources and the secondary literature is everywhere apparent. Probably no one, East or West, is as thoroughly conversant with international scholarship on such a wide variety of premodern Slavic topics as he. Anyone who wishes to undertake the study of a subject within Henrik Birnbaum's vast realm of knowledge would be well advised to start by consulting his survey and the literature he cites. (Norman W. Ingham, Slavic and East European Journal)
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