Marco Mincoff

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Marco Mincoff
Born(1909-07-15)15 July 1909 O.S.
Died10 July 1987(1987-07-10) (aged 77) [1]
Resting place Sofia Central Cemetery
Citizenship Bulgaria
Occupation(s) scholar
educator
Employer Sofia University
SpouseGerda Fredericke Elizabeth Tesche
Childrentwo daughters
Parent(s)Constantin Mincoff (father)
Elizabeth Marriage (mother)
Relatives Ellen Marriage (aunt)
Academic background
Alma mater Sofia University
Berlin University
Thesis Die Bedeutungsentwicklung der ags. Ausdrücke für 'Kraft' und 'Macht' (1933)

Marco Constantinov Mincoff, better known as Marco Mincoff (1909-1987) was a Bulgarian scholar on Shakespeare and professor of English Studies at the University of Sofia.

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Marco Mincoff was born on 15 July 1909 O.S. (28 July 1909 N.S.) in Chamkorya (now Samokov, Bulgaria) in the family of the Bulgarian diplomat Constantin Mincoff and his English wife Mary de: Elizabeth Mincoff-Marriage, who was a philologist and folk songs collector of her own right. With a Humboldt grant he completed his doctoral dissertation at the University of Berlin in 1933. [2] From 1951 to 1974 he was head of the department of English at the University of Sofia. Over the years, teaching courses in grammar, phonetics, stylistics and the history of English literature, he wrote various textbooks and monographs. However his main subject was English Renaissance drama, on which he wrote numerous articles. His work earned him recognition and he became a member of the editorial boards of Shakespeare Survey, Shakespeare Quarterly,Shakespeare Studies, and a few other learned journals. In 1966 the Shakespeare Institute at the University of Birmingham awarded him an honorary title. A commemorative volume containing some biographical material and facsimile reproductions of twenty five of his papers appeared in 2009 on the occasion of the hundredth year of his birth. [3]

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References

  1. Sokolova, Boica (1992). "Professor Marco Mincoff (1909 - 1987)". Things Supernatural and Causeless: Shakespearean Romance . Newark, London and Toronto: University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses. p.  127 via Internet Archive.
  2. The work submitted has been written in German and published as a book: Mincoff M., (1933), Die Bedeutungsentwicklung der ags. Ausdrücke für 'Kraft' und 'Macht'. Leipzig: Mayer & Muller, (Palaestra Bd. 188), 156S.
  3. Shurbanov A., A Shakespearean Behind the Curtain, The European English Messenger, Vol. 23.1 – Summer 2014, pp. 43-49