July 27th, 1921

born in Mihăileni, Romania (present-day Republic of Moldova)

1926-1931

Elementary school in Mihăileni

1931-1939

Lyceum (Liceul “Ion Creangă”) in Bălţi, Romania (present-day Republic of Moldova)

1939-1940

Studies (modern philology and law) at the University “Alexandru Ioan Cuza” of Iaşi, Romania

1940-1944

Romance and Slavic studies at the University of Rome, Italy

January – February 1943

Study visit to Zagreb, Croatia Januar

1944

Laurea in lettere at the University of Rome (with the thesis Su gli influssi della poesia epica francese medievale sulla poesia epica popolare degli Slavi meridionali)

1944

Studies of philosophy at the University of Padua, Italy

1945

Studies of philosophy at the University of Milan, Italy

1945-1949

Newspaper editor among others at the daily Corriere Lombardo

1949

Laurea in filosofia (with the thesis L'evoluzione delle idee estetiche in Romania)

1947-1950

Lecturer of Romanian language at the University of Milan; collaborator of Hoepli Enciclopedia

1951-1963

Professor of General and Indo-European Linguistics at the Universidad de la República (Montevideo, Uruguay); head of the linguistic research institute (Departamento de Lingüística); simultaneously Professor of Linguistics (general, Romance and Spanish) at the Instituto de Profesores Artigas, Montevideo

December 1960 - February 1961

Visiting Professor of General Linguistics at the University of Coimbra, Portugal

November 1961 - February 1962

Visiting Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Bonn, Germany

May 1962 - February 1963

Visiting Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Frankfurt/Main, Germany

Since May 1963

Professor of Romance Philology at the University of Tübingen, Germany

Since 1966

Professor of Romance Philology and General Linguistics at the University of Tübingen

1972 - 1973 and 1977 - 1978

Professeur associé at the University of Strasbourg, France

September 7th, 2002

Died in Tübingen