Sever Pop
Sever Pop (27 July 1901 – 17 February 1961) was a Romanian linguist. In 2012 he was declared a post-mortem member of the Romanian Academy.
Biographies
Sever Pop was born on 27 July 1901 in Poiana Ilvei, a town then in Beszterce-Naszód county.
He attended the Liceo Grăniceresc in Năsăud (1911–1919), then the Faculty of Letters and Philosophy of the University of Cluj (1919–1923). He obtained a doctorate in philology (1925). After specialising in linguistic geography in Paris (1925–1927) he was co-opted into the research team of the Museum of the Romanian Language in Cluj. Between 1930 and 1937, he carried out linguistic surveys in 301 localities, with a questionnaire containing 2160 items.
He became a lecturer in dialectology at the University of Cluj (1931), then professor of Romanian and its dialects at the University of Chernivtsi (1939) and at the University of Bucharest (1940). Deputy director of the Romanian Academy in Rome (1941–1946). Visiting Professor (1948–1953), then Extraordinary Professor at the Catholic University of Leuven. In 1951, he founded the Centre International de Dialectologie Générale in Leuven, whose bulletin is the journal Orbis. Under his editorship, volumes I–IX (1952–1960) of this publication appeared. In 1960, he organised the first international congress on general dialectology in Leuven and Brussels.
Works
- Buts et méthodes des enquêtes dialectales (1927)
- Atlasul lingvistic român (1938–1942; 2 volumes)
- Micul Atlas lingvistic român (1938–1942; 2 volumes)
- Grammaire roumaine (1948)
- La dialectologie. Aperçu historique et méthodes d’enquêtes linguistique (1950)
- Encyclopédie de la Philologie Romane: Langues et dialectes de la Romania (1954–1959)
- Bibliographie de Questionnaires linguistiques (1955)
- Atlas linguistiques européens. Domaine roman. Répertoire alphabétique des cartes (1960; with Rodica Doina Pop)
- Recueil posthume de linguistique et dialectologie (1966)
