Vladimir Admoni

Vladímir Admóni (Russian: Владимир Григорьевич Адмони) (29 October 1909 - 26 November 1993) was a Soviet linguist, literary critic, translator and poet, doctor of philological Sciences (1947), Professor (1948).

Correspondent member of Göttingen Academy of Sciences and Humanities, doctor honoris causa at the University of Uppsala.

President of the Bureau of the section of literary translation of the Leningrad (now St. Petersburg) branch of USSR (now Russian Federation).

Admóni was born in St. Petersburg, the son of the famous historian, publicist and Jewish community leader Gregoriy Yakovlevich Krasniy-Admoni;[1] and the younger brother of the composer Адмони, Иоганн Григорьевич [ru].

He paid great attention to the facts of the history of language; he was the first who used the concept of the field structure in the grammatical analysis[citation needed].