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Alexander Potebnja

1835 - 1891

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Alexander Afanasyevich Potebnja (Russian: Алекса́ндр Афана́сьевич Потебня́; Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Опана́сович Потебня́, romanized: Oleksandr Opanasovych Potebnia; September 22, 1835 – December 11, 1891) was a Russian Imperial linguist, philosopher and pan-Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was a professor of linguistics at the Imperial Kharkov University. He is well known as a specialist in the evolution of Russian phonetics. He constructed a theory of language and consciousness that later influenced the thinking of his countryman the Psychologist Lev Vygotsky. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alexander Potebnja has received more than 48,645 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 17 in 2019). Alexander Potebnja is the 99th most popular linguist (down from 87th in 2019), the 478th most popular biography from Ukraine (down from 422nd in 2019) and the 4th most popular Ukrainian Linguist.

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    Languages Editions (L)

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Alexander Potebnja ranks 99 out of 214. Before him are Gustaf John Ramstedt, George Abraham Grierson, Paul Ariste, John Chadwick, Tamaz V. Gamkrelidze, and Michael Halliday. After him are Johannes Schmidt, Yuen Ren Chao, Đuro Daničić, Teun A. van Dijk, Joan Coromines, and Matteo Bartoli.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Alexander Potebnja ranks 46. Before him are John Hughlings Jackson, Grigory Potanin, Émile Combes, Matthías Jochumsson, Lunalilo, and Raphael Kalinowski. After him are Franz Defregger, Henri Brisson, Auguste Kerckhoffs, Krišjānis Barons, Daniel Giraud Elliot, and Adlai Stevenson I. Among people deceased in 1891, Alexander Potebnja ranks 68. Before him are Miklós Ybl, Charles Joshua Chaplin, Heinrich Graetz, Pōmare V, Louis Paulsen, and Carl Johan Thyselius. After him are Theodor Aman, Charles Stewart Parnell, José María Iglesias, Antonio Ciseri, Laza Lazarević, and Antero de Quental.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Potebnja ranks 478 out of 1,365. Before him are Alexander Mosolov (1900), Vladimir Lyakhov (1941), Alexander Vertinsky (1889), Pavel Urysohn (1898), Nina Bocharova (1924), and Leone Ginzburg (1909). After him are Yuri Ilyenko (1936), Alexander Trepov (1862), Les Kurbas (1887), Wilhelm Stekel (1868), Stanisław Skrowaczewski (1923), and Anatoly Alexandrov (1903).

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Among LINGUISTS In Ukraine

Among linguists born in Ukraine, Alexander Potebnja ranks 4. Before him are Edgar de Wahl (1867), Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871), and Vasili Eroshenko (1890). After him are Aleksander Brückner (1856), Zellig Harris (1909), and Vladislav Illich-Svitych (1934).

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