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Alexander Potebnja

1835 - 1891

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Alexander Potebnja (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Опана́сович Потебня́, Russian: Алекса́ндр Афана́сьевич Потебня́) (September 22, 1831 - December 11, 1891) was a linguist, philosopher and panslavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was a professor of linguistics at the Imperial University of Kharkiv. 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 44,193 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Alexander Potebnja is the 87th most popular linguist (up from 91st in 2019), the 425th most popular biography from Ukraine and the 3rd most popular Ukrainian Linguist.

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  • 17

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Alexander Potebnja ranks 87 out of 161Before him are Holger Pedersen, Johannes Schmidt, Adolf Erman, Đuro Daničić, Yuen Ren Chao, and Paul Ariste. After him are Agop Dilâçar, Konrad Duden, Bernhard Karlgren, Teun A. van Dijk, Ahatanhel Krymsky, and Alexander Gode.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1835, Alexander Potebnja ranks 44Before him are Émile Combes, Alexandrine Tinné, Raffi, Lunalilo, Auguste Kerckhoffs, and Theodore Thomas. After him are Krišjānis Barons, Raphael Kalinowski, Matthías Jochumsson, Felix Draeseke, Grigory Potanin, and Duchess Agnes of Württemberg. Among people deceased in 1891, Alexander Potebnja ranks 63Before him are Sanjō Sanetomi, Antonio Ciseri, Ion C. Brătianu, Pōmare V, Charles Stewart Parnell, and Konstantin Leontiev. After him are Amalia Lindegren, James Russell Lowell, Louis Paulsen, Antero de Quental, Adolphe Alphand, and Miklós Ybl.

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In Ukraine

Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Potebnja ranks 425 out of 1,083Before him are Mischa Elman (1891), Sydir Kovpak (1887), Alexander Trepov (1862), Jan Puzyna de Kosielsko (1842), Yevhen Petrushevych (1863), and Klim Churyumov (1937). After him are Maksym Rylsky (1895), Leone Ginzburg (1909), Anatoly Alexandrov (1903), Yevhen Hrebinka (1812), Sergei Natanovich Bernstein (1880), and Aleksandr Aleksandrovich Volkov (1948).

Among LINGUISTS In Ukraine

Among linguists born in Ukraine, Alexander Potebnja ranks 3Before him are Edgar de Wahl (1867) and Vasili Eroshenko (1890). After him are Ahatanhel Krymsky (1871), Aleksander Brückner (1856), Zellig Harris (1909), and Vladislav Illich-Svitych (1934).