Aleksis Rannit

22 verse Ablancy Gyorgy forditasa

50,00

Na zalihi

Težina 70 g
Format 15 × 18 cm
Autor

Mjesto izdanja

Heldingissa

Godina

1965

Broj stranica

56

Uvez

Meki

Stanje knjige

Vrlo dobro

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Alexis Rannit (born Alexey Konstantinovich Dolgoshev – ??????? ?????????????? ????????; Estonian: Aleksis Rannit; 14 October 1914 – 5 January 1985) was an Estonian poet, critic and literature researcher. Biography He was born in Kallaste, in the Governorate of Livonia of the Russian Empire (nowadays in Tartumaa, Estonia).[1] He spent his childhood in Saint Petersburg. In 1939, he graduated from the University of Tartu. He studied applied arts. He did research on Lithuanian literature and knew personally many Lithuanian authors. From 1938 to 1940 he worked as a correspondent of the Riga newspaper Segodnya. In 1940 he married Lithuanian opera singer Gražina Matulaityte (1899–1993), moved to Kaunas, where he worked until 1941 as a translator at the Kaunas State Drama Theatre, and later as a librarian at the Lithuanian National Library (until 1944). In 1944, as the Red Army was approaching, Rannit emigrated to Germany, where he continued with his studies at the Institute of applied arts in Freiburg (1946–1950). In 1953 he moved to the US.[1] He remarried. From 1954 to 1960 he worked as librarian in the Art and Architecture division of the New York Public Library.[1] In 1956 he defended his master’s thesis on arts history (annotated critical biography of Ciurlionis) at the Columbia University (New York). He worked as a research fellow and curator of Slavic and Eastern European collections at the University of Yale.[1] Rannit was honorary doctor of a number of European (incl. University of Stockholm), American and Korean[2] universities, founding member of International Association of Arts Critics, represented the Estonian authors at the PEN club, belonged to the editorial staff of Continent. ?lexis Rannit died on 5 January 1985 at his home in New Haven, Connecticut.