Dr. Leonid S. Chekin

Profile

Academic positionSelf employed
Research fieldsHistory of Science,Individual Linguistics, Historical Linguistics
KeywordsSvalbard Studies, Friedrich Adelung, Julius von Klaproth, Geschichte des Dolmetschens, Rasmus Rask

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CitySpringfield

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Anna-Dorothee BrinckenHistorisches Seminar I, Universität zu Köln, Köln
Start of initial sponsorship01/07/1995

Programme(s)

1993Humboldt Research Fellowship Programme

Publications (partial selection)

2025Leonid S. Chekin, translated by Elena S. Bell: Inuit literature, postcolonial criticism, and problems of translatability. In: Translation and Interpreting Studies. The Journal of the American Translation and Interpreting Studies Association, 20, 2025, 432–466
2023Leonid S. Chekin: First Secretary Gierek, President Carter, and the president’s Polish interpreter: An analysis of an awkward diplomatic encounter based on new archival evidence . In: Babel: International Journal of Translation, 69, 2023, 725–748
2021Leonid S. Chekin: Gervase of Tilbury’s description of Russia, que et Rutenia. A study in the history of geography with a side story based on a memoir of a Soviet student. In: Małgorzata Delimata-Proch, Adam Krawiec, and Jakub Kujawiński, Totius mundi philohistor. Studia Georgio Strzelczyk octuagenario oblata. Uniwersytet im. Adama Mickiewicza, 2021. 207-226
2020Leonid S. Chekin: Svalbarðs fundr: The Place Name Svalbard and Its Connotations in Medieval and Modern Literature and Cartography. In: Nordlit, 2020, 18-38
2017Leonid S. Chekin: A Russian discovery in the Arctic ocean at the time of Columbus. In: Nordlit, 2017, 58-74
2008Leonid S. Chekin: Geography, Eschatology, and Religious Conversions in the Ninth Century. In: Thomas Bremer, Religion and the Conceptual Boundary in Central and Eastern Europe: Encounters of Faiths. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. 16-39
2006Leonid S. Chekin: Northern Eurasia in Medieval Cartography: Inventory, Text, Translation, and Commentary. Brepols, 2006
2003Leonid S. Čekin, translated by Stefanie Edler-Wollstein: Rjurikgrad? Ein Kommentar zu Andrej Sacharov. In: Osteuropa, 2003, 206-212
1999Leonid S. Chekin: Easter Tables and the Pseudo-Isidorean Vatican Map. In: Imago Mundi, 1999, 13-23
1998Leonid S. Chekin: Notes on Images of the Time of Troubles in The Devils and The Brothers Karamazov. In: Dostoevsky Studies. New Series, 2, 1998, 83–92
1997Leonid S. Chekin: Christian of Stavelot and the Conversion of Gog and Magog: A Study of the Ninth-Century Reference to Judaism Among the Khazars. In: Russia Mediaevalis, 9, 1997, 13–34