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Nikolai Trubetzkoy

1890 - 1938

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Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (Russian: Николай Сергеевич Трубецкой [nʲɪkɐˈlaj sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ trʊbʲɪtsˈkoj]; 16 April 1890 – 25 June 1938) was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. He is widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology. He was also associated with the Russian Eurasianists. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Trubetzkoy is the 31st most popular linguist (down from 27th in 2019), the 334th most popular biography from Russia (up from 346th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Linguist.

Nikolai Trubetzkoy is most famous for his theory of the "phoneme."

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 31 out of 214. Before him are William Jones, Johann Christoph Adelung, Sibawayh, Michael Halliday, Otto Jespersen, and Pompeu Fabra. After him are Ignác Goldziher, Bedřich Hrozný, Louis Hjelmslev, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Nicholas Marr, and Benjamin Lee Whorf.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 43. Before him are Elsa Schiaparelli, Rachele Mussolini, Anthony Fokker, Michael Collins, Beniamino Gigli, and Hans-Valentin Hube. After him are Groucho Marx, Jacques Ibert, Alfredo Ottaviani, Moša Pijade, Habibullāh Kalakāni, and Harold Bride. Among people deceased in 1938, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 41. Before him are John Flanagan, Feodor Chaliapin, Otto Bauer, Branislav Nušić, Thomas Wolfe, and Nikolai Kondratiev. After him are Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, Grand Duke Kirill Vladimirovich of Russia, Ernst Barlach, Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein, and Andrej Hlinka.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 334 out of 3,761. Before him are Grand Duchess Anastasia Mikhailovna of Russia (1860), Yury of Moscow (1281), Grand Duke Konstantin Pavlovich of Russia (1779), Grand Duchess Alexandra Pavlovna of Russia (1783), Nikolai Kondratiev (1892), and Sergey Ilyushin (1894). After him are Nicholas Alexandrovich, Tsesarevich of Russia (1843), Valery Leontiev (1949), Kirill Meretskov (1897), Henri Troyat (1911), Nikolai Rubinstein (1835), and Lyudmila Ulitskaya (1943).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 3. Before him are Roman Jakobson (1896), and Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917). After him are Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), and Sergei Starostin (1953).

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