Eichenbaum B.М., (1886-1959), literary historian

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EICHENBAUM Boris Mikhailovich (1886-1959, Leningrad), a literary historian, Ph.D. (philology) in 1918. Living in St. Petersburg from 1905, he studied at the Army Medical Academy and P. F. Lesgaft's Free Higher School and graduated from Petersburg University with a major in history and philology in 1914. He was a teacher at the university in 1914-48, promoted to Professor in 1918. He also worked at the Institute of Art History in 1920-31 and the Institute of Russian Literature from 1934. Persecuted during the struggle against cosmopolitism, he was dismissed from both the university and institute in 1948. He returned to the Institute of Russian Literature in 1956 to work there until his dying day. He became a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR in 1934. In 1918, he was a member of the Society for Studying Poetic Language. He was one of the founders of the so-called formal school in the study of literature. Author of works on the history of Russian literature of the 19th century, he founded the Soviet school of textual study. He annotated and edited collected works by a number of Russian classical writers. He lived at 9 Griboedova Canal Embankment in 1930s and 8 Malaya Posadskaya Street from 1945. Buried at Bogoslovskoe Cemetery.

References: Бялый Г. А. Б. М. Эйхенбаум - историк литературы // Эйхенбаум Б. М. О прозе: Сб. ст. Л., 1969. С. 5-20; Шкловский В. Б. Борис Эйхенбаум // Избранное: В 2 т. М., 1983. Т. 2. С. 7-35; Якобсон Р. Борис Михайлович Эйхенбаум // Эйхенбаум Б. М. "Мой временник...": Худож. проза и избр. ст. 20-30-х гг. СПб., 2001. С. 597-605.

D. I. Raskin. Eichenbaum Boris Mikhailovich
Lesgaft Peter Franzevich
Griboedova Canal Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
Malaya Posadskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Бялый Г. А. Б. М. Эйхенбаум - историк литературы // Эйхенбаум Б. М. О прозе: Сб. ст. Л., 1969
Якобсон Р. Борис Михайлович Эйхенбаум // Эйхенбаум Б. М. "Мой временник...": Худож. проза и избр. ст. 20-30-х гг. СПб., 2001
Шкловский В. Б. Борис Эйхенбаум // Шкловский В. Б. Избранное: В 2 т. М., 1983 Army Medical Academy
State University, St. Petersburg
Institute of Art History
Russian Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of
OPOYaZ
Bogoslovskoe Cemetery