Viktors IVBULIS

Professor Viktors IVBULIS Faculty of Modern Languages Professor Emeritus University of Latvia Visvalza iela 4a Riga, LV 1050 Latvia Phone: +371 7034825 Fax: +371 722 7802 E-mail: ivbulis@lanet.lv

Born: May 31, 1933, Daugavpils district, Latvia

• Bengali literature, in particular Rabindranath Tagore
• Sanscrit literature
• Literary theory in its development
• European and Bengali romanticism
• German romanticism and India

The theme of the present research: a survey of Indian history

Languages: Latvian , English, Russian, Bengali, German,  French

• University of Latvia, 1966
• Dr.philol. (Candidate of Sciences in former USSR), Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia, 1972
• Dr. habil. philol. (Doctor of Sciences in former USSR), Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, Russia, 1983

• Different teaching and administrative jobs at the University of Latvia, 1972 -1986
• Professor, University of Latvia, 1986 -

• Foreign Research Fellow for 10 months, Visva- bharati ( India), 1978- 1979
• Five month Fulbright Grant and teaching at Wisconsin- Madison University, 1990
• Lectures at 17 universities in USA, India, Sweden, Norway, Danemark, France, Belarus, Lithuania
• Ten month research in Germany (1998 - 1999)

• Corresponding Member, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1997
• Full Member, Latvian Academy of Sciences, 1999
• Emeritus Professor, University of Latvia, 2002
• State Emeritus Scientist, 2002
• USSR Ministry of Higher and Secondary Special Education Prize for the book "The Creative Writing of Rabindranath Tagore: the Problem of Method", 1985
• Rabindra Memorial Prize for the book "Tagore: East and West Cultural Unity", State Government of West Bengal (India), 2002

University of Latvia:

• Introduction to Literature
• The History of Foreign Literary Criticism
• Literary Theory
• Romanticism
• Rabindranath Tagore and World Literature
• India and Rabindranath Tagore
• India as a Civilization
• Hinduism

• The Creative Writing of Rabindranath Tagore. The Problem of Method, 1981, Riga, 388 pp. ( in Russian ).
• Whither Literary Theory? Introduction ( pp. 5-147 ) and selection, 1995, Riga, 286 pp. ( in Latvian ).
• Romantic Revolution. Introduction ( pp. 3- 49 ) and selection, 1996, Riga, 117 pp.
• Bhagavadgita. Introduction ( pp. 3- 44 ) and glossary ( pp. 150- 158 ). 1996, Riga, 160 pp.
• Tagore: East and West Cultural Unity. Rabindra Bharati University. Calcuta, 1999, 218 pp.
• On the Way to Literary Theory. Introduction (pp. 5-96) and selection, 1998, Riga, 213 pp. 
• Rabindranath Tagore: the Novel "Home and the World" , etc., 1999, Daugava: Riga, 447 lpp.   - (a volume of translations from Bengali into Latvian).
• Shiva Creates and Destroys the World by Dancing. Introduction into Traditional Hindu Thought, 2002, Riga: Zinatne, 572 pp. 

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