Henrik Birnbaum

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,...See more

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. See less