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Semyon Karlovich Boyanus, also known as as Simon Charles Boyanus, (8 July 1871 – 19 July 1952) was a Russian phonetician who worked in England.

He also worked under the alias S. Bronevsky (С. Броневский).

Family and early life
Boyanus was born in Moscow on 8 July, 1871. His father was Carl Heinrich Bojanus (1818–1897), and his mother was Olga Semyonovna Khlyustina (1837–1910). Simon had two older brothers and two younger sisters; he also had three older half-brothers from his father's first marriage and one older half-sister from his mother's first marriage.

Carl Heinrich Bojanus was the nephew of the physician and naturalist Ludwig Heinrich Bojanus.

Theater
Under the name "S. Bronevsky (Boyanus)", he wrote О форме в сценическом творчестве ("On form in scenic art") as a supplement to Art and Printing Magazine, published in Kyiv. It was published around 1910 or 1914.

Boyanus taught at the State Institute for Art History in the Department of Theater History. He became a professor on May 24, 1920. Boyanus became a full member of the Department of the History of Medieval Theatre in 1921, and of the Department of History of the Verbal Arts in 1927. Subjects he taught included English and French mystery plays and stage speech.

Work on English
In 1918, he passed the English philology master's examination at Petrograd University's Faculty of History and Philology; he subsequently taught there.

Among Boyanus's students at Petrograd–Leningrad University was Dmitry Likhachov. Boyanus taught him English phonetics and Middle English poetry, and also was his thesis advisor, which was on Shakespearean theatre in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Russia.

Boyanus School of Russian
Monica Partridge studied at the Boyanus School of Russian from 1940 to 1943. She then taught there from 1943 to 1947.

Death
Boyanus died of heart failure on 19 July 1952. The Boyanus School of Russian had to close due to his death. He died at St. Thomas's Hospital.

Daniel Jones wrote his obituary for Le Maître Phonétique.

Monica Partridge wrote his obituary for The Slavonic and East European Review.

Boris Unbegaun wrote his obituary for Revue des études slaves.

He was cremated at Golders Green Crematorium on 23 July.

Selected works
A more complete list of works can be found in.