Profesor Andrzej Baranow (1959–2024). Wspomnienie

Abstract

The article presents the profile of Prof. Andrey Baranov, w theoretician of Polish, Russian, and Lithuanian literature, as well as an expert in the issues of cultural border lands and the methods of modern comparative studies. Professor Baranov was born in Kostroma, Russia. He received his doctoral and habilitation degrees in Moscow, under the supervision of Prof. Elena Tsybenko. Together with his wife, docent Halina Turkiewicz, a Polish academic from Vilnius, he settled in Lithuania, where he worked as a literary historian at the Vilnius Academy of Education. In 2017, he was appointed Professor of literature studies at the University of Białystok (Poland), where he was Head of the Department of Comparative Literary Studies of the Department of Philological Studies “East-West”. He organised six international scientific conferences in Vilnius, on these subjects of the Baltic-Slavic literary borderland, the Lithuanian-Polish borderland, bilingualism, and the works of Adam Mickiewicz and Czesław Miłosz. He was widely appreciated not only as a researcher, but also as a good, warm-hearted person.