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Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

1845 - 1929

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Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay, also Ivan Alexandrovich Baudouin de Courtenay (Russian: Иван Александрович Бодуэн де Куртенэ; 13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929), 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 (1874–1883), Dorpat (now Estonia) (1883–1893), Kraków (1893–1899) in Austria-Hungary, and St. Petersburg (1900–1918). In 1919–1929 he was a professor at the re-established University of Warsaw in an again independent Poland. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Baudouin de Courtenay is the 46th most popular linguist (down from 38th in 2019), the 316th most popular biography from Poland (down from 286th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Polish Linguist.

Jan Baudouin de Courtenay is most famous for his book, "Au-dela de la pensée" which is a critique of Cartesian dualism.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay ranks 46 out of 214. Before him are Vasily Radlov, Alexandre de Rhodes, Boris Kolker, Joseph Greenberg, Joshua Fishman, and André Martinet. After him are Ghil'ad Zuckermann, Gabdulkhay Akhatov, Louis de Beaufront, Tuone Udaina, Hermann Paul, and Renato Corsetti.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay ranks 29. Before him are Laura Marx, George Darwin, Fernand Cormon, Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Princess Sophie of Saxony, and Princess Marie of Hohenzollern-Sigmaringen. After him are Gustaf de Laval, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, Mary Ann Nichols, Infanta Antónia of Portugal, Isidor Straus, and Tristan Corbière. Among people deceased in 1929, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay ranks 36. Before him are Habibullāh Kalakāni, Richard Réti, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Oldfield Thomas, and Arthur Scherbius. After him are Rainis, Liang Qichao, Maurice Sarrail, Manuel Gomes da Costa, Stepa Stepanović, and André Messager.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay ranks 316 out of 1,694. Before him are Sophie of Pomerania (1498), Ryszard Kaczorowski (1919), Józef Bem (1794), Ida Haendel (1928), Jan Karski (1914), and Lilli Palmer (1914). After him are Jean Epstein (1897), Jerzy Stuhr (1947), Zvi Zamir (1925), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Casimir II the Just (1138), and Stefan Czarniecki (1599).

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Among LINGUISTS In Poland

Among linguists born in Poland, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay ranks 2. Before him are Edward Sapir (1884). After him are Franz Felix Adalbert Kuhn (1812), Friedrich von Adelung (1768), and Michael Witzel (1943).

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