Biography
The name of Ditmar Rosental is known not only to specialists in the field of linguistics. The works of the Russian grammar of the Russian language formed the basis of textbooks and reference books, which grew not one generation of Russian schoolchildren and students. Linguistic manuals give a solid base, thanks to which applicants are now being prepared for admission to universities, absorbing flawlessly outlined laws of spelling, pronunciation and stylistics.Childhood and youth
Ditmar Elyashevich Rosenthal. In this name, as if there is nothing Russian, however, this man of Jewish nationality, born in Poland in 1900, became a guiding star for many people seeking to know the beauty and laws of Russian. This is all the more strange that Pushkin's language was not for a scholar native: in the family, Rosenthal was talked in German and Polish.
Elyshiv's parents and Ida brought up two children (Ditmar had an Oscar's eldest brother) and managed to live in Lodz and Berlin before moving in 1916 to Moscow. Here, the future linguist graduated from school and entered the university, choosing Italian as a specialization. Rosental can be called polyglot, because in his arsenal there were 12 languages.
The MSU GUIDE was received in 1923, and then went to graduate school of the Russian Association of Research Institutions of Public Sciences.
Since childhood, Ditmar was "pathologically competent", therefore the laws of grammar were easy to him. However, despite the fact that the linguistics was a clear vocation of a young man, he received another higher education for the suspension, graduating from the Faculty of Economics. In this area, his father and brother were prominent specialists.
Linguistics
The first teaching experience of Ditmar Elyashevich received, working at school, but he soon moved to the teach of Rabafakov. In parallel, the man was engaged in science, at first specializing in Italian and performing translations of classics. Rosental even wrote a tutorial for universities in the grammar of Italian, for which 20 years later received a candidate degree.The dissertation, the scientist did not protect at all that he did not prevent him from teaching Polish in Moscow State University, and then switch to Russian, the painstaking work on grammar and the stylistry of which in the 1930s made it a reputable face in this area.
In 1936, Linguist entered the editorial board of the Russian language magazine in school, where he worked for 25 years. In parallel, Rosenthal worked at the Russian language institute of the USSR Academy of Sciences, at the Journalistic Faculty of Moscow State University and the Printing Institute.
With an indisputable scientific authority, Ditmar Elyashevich wrote more than a hundred books on grammar and the stylist of the Russian language, and his articles became part of fundamental collections. The professorial title was awarded to a scientist in 1962, and even more than 30 years after that, he continued to explore, write and teach.
Personal life
The scientist with the family lived in the Moscow River, in the house, windows overlooking the Kiev station. A humble man, he almost did not talk about the facts of his own biography and personal life, and rare surviving interviews were given to them shortly before death.
By this time, there was no wife already, the son lived separately, and granddaughter moved at all to live in Sweden. The work occupied the main place in his life, until last days he did not lose a clear mind and a desire to serve the case of enlightenment.
Death
The low, subtitle Ditmar Elyashevich lived a long fruitful life, remaining interest in the chosen cause by the end of the day. In recent years, the scientist has become weak and hard to move around the apartment, but did not leave the pencil and leaflets. He continued to replenish his bibliography, stirs from the 90-year-old frontier.Linguist died in 94 years old, at the age, when the causes of death was not customary to say, because inexorable time takes his own. I buried the professor next to the brother and parents on the Vostrikovsky cemetery of Moscow. On a modest tombstone, only the name and years of life are indicated, there are no photos of a scientist nor words about his merit. However, this does not prevent thousands of people to keep a grateful memory about the retail.
Bibliography
- 1960 - "Coordination of the meaning" to the subject to the subject "
- 1965 - "Practical Stylistics of the Russian Language"
- 1975 - "The faithful friend of the teacher-writer"
- 1977 - "Practical Stylistics of the Russian Language"
- 1981 - "Dictionary-directory. For print workers »
- 1984 - "Punctuation Directory: For Print Workers"
- 1984 - "Registration or lowercase? The experience of the dictionary-directories "
- 1984 - "Dictionary of the difficulties of Russian language"
- 1989 - "Collection of exercises in the Russian language for the preparatory departments of universities"
- 1994 - "Russian: allowance for applicants to universities"