Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
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1845 – 1929
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Who was Jan Baudouin de Courtenay?
Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay was a Polish linguist and Slavist, best known for his theory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations.
For most of his life Baudouin de Courtenay worked at Imperial Russian universities: Kazan, Dorpat, Kraków in Austria-Hungary, and St. Petersburg, where he was known as Иван Александрович Бодуэн де Куртенэ, and in Russia he is recognized as a Russian scientist. In 1919-1929 he was a professor at the re-established University of Warsaw in a once again independent Poland.
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- Born
- Mar 13, 1845
Radzymin - Also known as
- 博杜恩·德·库尔德内
- Бодуэн де Куртенэ, Иван Александрович
- Nationality
- Poland
- Education
- University of Warsaw
- Leipzig University
- Humboldt University of Berlin
- Employment
- University of Tartu
- Died
- Nov 3, 1929
Warsaw
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on July 23, 2013
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