Eugen Munteanu


Eugen Munteanu is a Romanian linguist. He specializes in Biblical philology, historical lexicology and the philosophy of language.
He has also edited into Romanian authors such as Alexander von Humboldt, Thomas Aquinas, Antoine de Rivarol, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther, Eugenio Coseriu, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacob Grimm and Ernst Renan.
He has held lecturing, research or guest professorship positions at the Paris-Sorbonne University , Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena , the University of Vienna, and director of the "A. Phillipide" Romanian Philology Institute of the Romanian Academy.
Eugen Munteanu is currently Professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, as well as coordinating director of the Biblical-Philological Research Center "Monumenta linguae Dacoromanorum" in Iaşi, Romania.
He is known as one of Eugenio Coseriu's academic disciples, one of the most activ translators and interpreters of Coseriu in Romania, and has featured favorably in some of the linguist's commentaries.

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Monographs