SCHOLARLY LEGACY OF EINO GENRIKHOVICH KARHU: CELEBRAING THE CENTENARY OF THE SCHOLAR
- Authors: Kolokolova O.A.1
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Affiliations:
- Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
- Issue: Vol 46, No 1 (2024)
- Pages: 47-52
- Section: Articles
- URL: https://journal-vniispk.ru/2542-1077/article/view/293254
- DOI: https://doi.org/10.15393/uchz.art.2024.990
- ID: 293254
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Abstract
The article is devoted to the centenary of a prominent philologist E. G. Karhu, the Doctor of Philologyand Professor at the Institute of Linguistics, Literature and History of the Karelian Research Centre of the RussianAcademy of Sciences. The author systematizes, describes, and summarizes his academic achievements, whichdetermines the novelty of the reported research. The article is aimed at describing Karhu’s contribution to the study ofKarelian and Finnish literatures, Russian-Finnish literary relations, and Karelian-Finnish folklore. The main stages ofKarhu’s academic biography and his key works are investigated with the special focus on his translation work. Karhuwas the pioneer in the study of Russian-Finnish literary and cultural relations, he investigated the evolution of Finnishliterature written in Finnish and Swedish, from its origins to the post-war modernism (the “second modernism”), and conducted a historical review of the main genres of Karelian and Ingrian folklore taking into account the connection between folklore and literary traditions. Karhu also studied Elias Lonnrot’s biography as well as the genre specifics and problematics of the Kalevala epic. The scholar explored local material in the light of European and world traditionsplacing it within a wide historical and cultural context. The reported study led to the conclusion that Karhu’s main research tools, the historic approach and the use of a wide context, enabled him to solve large-scale problems of Russian philological science in the field of comparative literature studies and the systematic study of the history of Finnish literature.
About the authors
O. A. Kolokolova
Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Sciences
Author for correspondence.
Email: kolokolowa.olg@yandex.ru
Cand. Sc. (Philology)
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