1835 - 1891
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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Among linguists, Alexander Potebnja ranks 87 out of 161. Before 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.
1867 - 1953
HPI: 52.35
Rank: 81
1843 - 1901
HPI: 52.19
Rank: 82
1854 - 1937
HPI: 52.14
Rank: 83
1825 - 1882
HPI: 51.66
Rank: 84
1892 - 1982
HPI: 51.62
Rank: 85
1905 - 1990
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 86
1835 - 1891
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 87
1895 - 1979
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 88
1829 - 1911
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 89
1889 - 1978
HPI: 51.43
Rank: 90
1943 - Present
HPI: 51.39
Rank: 91
1871 - 1942
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 92
1906 - 1970
HPI: 51.29
Rank: 93
Among people born in 1835, Alexander Potebnja ranks 44. Before 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 63. Before 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.
1835 - 1921
HPI: 53.32
Rank: 38
1835 - 1869
HPI: 53.19
Rank: 39
1835 - 1888
HPI: 52.07
Rank: 40
1835 - 1874
HPI: 51.93
Rank: 41
1835 - 1903
HPI: 51.76
Rank: 42
1835 - 1905
HPI: 51.60
Rank: 43
1835 - 1891
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 44
1835 - 1923
HPI: 51.03
Rank: 45
1835 - 1907
HPI: 50.91
Rank: 46
1835 - 1920
HPI: 50.90
Rank: 47
1835 - 1913
HPI: 50.85
Rank: 48
1835 - 1920
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 49
1835 - 1886
HPI: 50.83
Rank: 50
1837 - 1891
HPI: 52.88
Rank: 57
1821 - 1891
HPI: 52.54
Rank: 58
1821 - 1891
HPI: 52.42
Rank: 59
1839 - 1891
HPI: 52.33
Rank: 60
1846 - 1891
HPI: 52.13
Rank: 61
1831 - 1891
HPI: 51.88
Rank: 62
1835 - 1891
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 63
1814 - 1891
HPI: 51.46
Rank: 64
1819 - 1891
HPI: 51.20
Rank: 65
1833 - 1891
HPI: 51.10
Rank: 66
1842 - 1891
HPI: 50.86
Rank: 67
1817 - 1891
HPI: 50.84
Rank: 68
1814 - 1891
HPI: 50.39
Rank: 69
Among people born in Ukraine, Alexander Potebnja ranks 425 out of 1,083. Before 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).
1891 - 1967
HPI: 51.59
Rank: 419
1887 - 1967
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 420
1862 - 1928
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 421
1842 - 1911
HPI: 51.58
Rank: 422
1863 - 1940
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 423
1937 - 2016
HPI: 51.55
Rank: 424
1835 - 1891
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 425
1895 - 1964
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 426
1909 - 1944
HPI: 51.49
Rank: 427
1903 - 1994
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 428
1812 - 1848
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 429
1880 - 1968
HPI: 51.48
Rank: 430
1948 - Present
HPI: 51.47
Rank: 431
Among linguists born in Ukraine, Alexander Potebnja ranks 3. Before 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).
1867 - 1948
HPI: 58.96
Rank: 1
1890 - 1952
HPI: 53.67
Rank: 2
1835 - 1891
HPI: 51.51
Rank: 3
1871 - 1942
HPI: 51.30
Rank: 4
1856 - 1939
HPI: 49.15
Rank: 5
1909 - 1992
HPI: 47.44
Rank: 6
1934 - 1966
HPI: 43.89
Rank: 7