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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). Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay has received more than 93,278 page views. His biography is available in 37 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Jan Baudouin de Courtenay is the 38th most popular linguist (down from 34th in 2019), the 286th most popular biography from Poland (down from 267th 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 38 out of 214. Before him are Michel Bréal, Georg Friedrich Grotefend, Alexandre de Rhodes, Louis Hjelmslev, Vasily Radlov, and Benjamin Lee Whorf. After him are Otto Jespersen, André Martinet, Vilhelm Thomsen, Bedřich Hrozný, Friedrich August Wolf, and August Leskien.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1845, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay ranks 27. Before him are Ahmet Tevfik Pasha, Franz Ehrle, Jacint Verdaguer, Laura Marx, José Maria de Eça de Queirós, and Mary Ann Nichols. After him are Isidor Straus, Leopold Auer, Princess Sophie of Saxony, Tristan Corbière, Fernand Cormon, and Infanta Antónia of Portugal. Among people deceased in 1929, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay ranks 33. Before him are Gyula Andrássy the Younger, Prince Henry of Prussia, Thomas Burke, Richard Réti, Stepa Stepanović, and Asa Griggs Candler. After him are Liang Qichao, Tanaka Giichi, Carl Auer von Welsbach, Oldfield Thomas, La Goulue, and Rainis.

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In Poland

Among people born in Poland, Jan Baudouin de Courtenay ranks 286 out of 1,694. Before him are Kazimierz Kuratowski (1896), Lilli Palmer (1914), Dieter Wisliceny (1911), Stanisława Walasiewicz (1911), Henry the Bearded (1163), and Moïse Kisling (1891). After him are Siemomysł (922), Stanislav Kosior (1889), Adam Czerniaków (1880), Viktor Ullmann (1898), Kurt Masur (1927), and Hyacinth of Poland (1185).

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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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