| Eugenio Coşeriu | |
|---|---|
| Born | July 27, 1921 Mihăileni, Rîşcani, Romania |
| Died | September 7, 2002 (aged 81) Tübingen, Germany |
| Nationality | Romania, Germany |
| Ethnicity | Romanian |
| Alma mater | University of Iaşi |
| Occupation | Professor |
| Employer | University of Tübingen University of the Republic, Uruguay |
| Religion | Eastern Orthodoxy |
Eugenio Coşeriu (Romanian: Eugen Coşeriu, pronounced [e.uˈd͡ʒen koˈʃerju]; July 27, 1921, Mihăileni, Bălţi, Republic of Moldova – September 7, 2002, Tübingen, Germany) was a linguist that specialized in Romance languages at the University of Tübingen, author of over 50 books, honorary member of the Romanian Academy.
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Eugenio Coşeriu was born on July 27, 1921 in Mihăileni, Rîşcani, a small Romanian town that today lies in the Republic of Moldova. He attended high school in Bălţi, where Vadim Pirogan and Sergiu Grossu were his classmates.[1] After his studies at the University of Iaşi, he went to Italy in 1940 with a scholarship of the Istituto Italiano di Cultura and continued to study in Rome, where he earned his PhD in 1944 with a dissertation about the influence of the Chanson de geste on the folk poetry of the southern Slavic peoples. In the years 1944 and 1945 Coşeriu was at the university of Padua, then from 1945 to 1949 at the university of Milan.
Eugenio Coşeriu was active at the University of the Republic, Uruguay as Professor of General and Indo-European Linguistics, and then at the University of Tübingen, Germany.