Eugen Munteanu - Biography#

Eugen Munteanu (born August 18, 1953 in Seimeni, Constanța County) is a Romanian linguist. He specializes in biblical philology, historical lexicology and the philosophy of language. He has also edited into Romanian authors such as Alexander von Humboldt, Thomas Aquinas, Antoine de Rivarol, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Augustine of Hippo, Martin Luther, Eugenio Coseriu, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jacob Grimm and Ernst Renan. He has held lecturing, research or guest professorship positions at the Paris-Sorbonne University (Paris IV) (1997 - 1999), Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena (1999 - 2001), the University of Vienna (2006 - 2008, & 2009 - 2010), and director of the "Alexandru Phillipide" Romanian Philology Institute of the Romanian Academy (2009 - 2013).

Eugen Munteanu is currently Professor at the Alexandru Ioan Cuza University, coordinating director of the Biblical-Philological Research Center "Monumenta linguae Dacoromanorum" in Iași, Romania as well as research fellow at "Alexandru Phillipide" Romanian Philology Institute. He is known as one of Eugenio Coseriu's academic disciples, one of the most activ translators and interpreters of Coseriu in Romania, and has featured favorably in some of the linguist's commentaries.