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.
Marco Mincoff | |
|---|---|
| Born | 15 July 1909 O.S. |
| Died | 31 July 1987 (aged 78)[1] |
| Resting place | Sofia Central Cemetery |
| Alma mater | Berlin University |
| Occupation(s) | scholar; educator |
| Employer | Sofia University |
| Parent(s) | Constantin Marcoff Elizabeth Marriage |
| Relatives | Ellen Marriage (aunt) |
Marco Mincoff was born on 15 (28) July 1909 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]
Works
edit- Christopher Marlowe: a study of his development (Sofia, 1937)
- Shakespeare: life & works (in Bulgarian) (1946; 2nd. ed. Sofia: Rollis Press, 1992)
- Baroque Literature in England, (1947) repr. in Limon J., and Halio J., Shakespeare and his contemporaries, Associated University Presses, 1993, p. 11-69
- An English Grammar (Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1950)
- English Historical Grammar (Sofia, 1955)
- An Introduction to English Phonetics (1960; 3rd. ed. Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1973)
- A Study of Style (1965; 2nd. ed. Sofia: Pleiada, 1998)
- A History of English Literature Parts I and II (1970; 3rd. ed. Sofia: Nauka i Izkustvo, 1998)
- Shakespeare: the first steps (Sofia: Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, 1976)
- Things Supernatural and Causeless: Shakespearean Romance (2nd ed.). Newark, London and Toronto: University of Delaware Press, Associated University Presses. 1992. ISBN 0-87413-456-0 – via Internet Archive.
- Studies in English Renaissance Drama (Sofia University Press, 2009)ISBN 978-954-07-2977-0
References
edit- ^ 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.
- ^ 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.
- ^ Shurbanov A., A Shakespearean Behind the Curtain, The European English Messenger, Vol. 23.1 – Summer 2014, pp. 43-49