Beatrise REIDZANE

Born: January 18, 1942, Jelgava, Latvia

Interests:

• Semantics and Folk Song Semantics
• Areal Linguistics and Areals of Traditional Texts
• Dialectal Lexicology

Brief Description of Main Research

• The scholarly edition of Latvian folk songs , second cycle "Songs of the Flow of Human Life",  total amount about 600.000 items, texts of traditional culture with great international significance; editor, text editor and author.

Languages: Latvian, Russian, English

Education

• University of Latvia (Faculty of History and Philology ),1964
• Postgraduate, University of Latvia, 1967-1970
• Dr.philol. (Candidate of Science in former USSR), University of Latvia, 1971
• Dr.habil.philol., University of Latvia, 1999

Experience

• English and Latvian language and literature teacher, Zalenieki 8-year school in Jelgava district, 1964-1967
• Researcher, Institute of Language and Literature, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1970-1979
• Editor and Chief of Group of Transcription, Main Editorial Board of the Encyclopaedia of Latvia, 1980-1982
• Researcher, Leading Researcher, Institute of Language and Literature, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1982-1992
• Leading Researcher, Head of the archives of Latvian Folklore Institute of Literature, Folklore and Art , 1992-

Recent/Representative Publications

• B.Reidzane. Terms with roots krista/krusta in the Rites of Baptizing and problem of age of Latvian Folksongs.- Proc. Latvian  Acad. Sci., A, 1987, No.10, pp.91-96 (in Russian).
• B.Reidzane.The Sister und the Sun in the Similies and Parallelisms in "Latvju Dainas".- The Family as the Tradition Carrier. NIF Publications No.31,volume2, Tallin 1997,pp.123-132.
• B.Reidzane.Classic Quatrains in "Livian Coast". - Proc. Latvian  Acad. Sci., A, 1997, No.1/2, pp.40-51 (in Latvian).
• B. Reidzane.  Latvian Jadinasana songs in the context of other nursing songs.- ARV Nordic Yearbook of folklore, 1995, vol. 51, Uppsala, Stokholm, Sweden, pp.143 - 153.

 

Research Projects

• B. Reidzane. Latvian Folk Songs, Theorethical and Historical Investigations, Publication. Latvian Council of Science, 1994 -