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Jan Mukařovský

1891 - 1975

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Jan Mukařovský (Czech pronunciation: [ˈjan ˈmukar̝ofskiː]; 11 November 1891 – 8 February 1975) was a Czech literary, linguistic, and aesthetic theorist. Mukařovský was professor at the Charles University of Prague. He is well known for his association with early structuralism as well as with the Prague Linguistic Circle, and for his development of the ideas of Russian formalism. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Jan Mukařovský has received more than 59,524 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 18 in 2019). Jan Mukařovský is the 83rd most popular linguist (down from 75th in 2019), the 336th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 312th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jan Mukařovský ranks 83 out of 214. Before him are Carl Brockelmann, Ramón Menéndez Pidal, Agop Dilâçar, August Immanuel Bekker, Holger Pedersen, and Leo Spitzer. After him are Johannes Aavik, Vasili Eroshenko, Alexander Gode, Morris Swadesh, Anne Dacier, and Bernhard Karlgren.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Jan Mukařovský ranks 114. Before him are Earl Warren, Franz Alexander, Pietro Nenni, Vittorio Jano, Maria Skobtsova, and Juan Yagüe. After him are Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Francisco Lázaro, Jüri Lossmann, Otto Ciliax, Paul Grüninger, and Ronald Colman. Among people deceased in 1975, Jan Mukařovský ranks 96. Before him are Sam Giancana, Kazimierz Fajans, Joseph Laniel, Alvin Hansen, Virginio Rosetta, and Michał Sopoćko. After him are Shojiro Sugimura, Mina Witkojc, Sven Rydell, Georg Ots, Tajuddin Ahmad, and Jacques Duclos.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Mukařovský ranks 336 out of 1,200. Before him are Antonio Rosetti (1746), Georg Joseph Kamel (1661), Zdislava Berka (1215), Melchior Grodziecki (1584), Karel Ančerl (1908), and František Brixi (1732). After him are Jana Brejchová (1940), Paul Wranitzky (1756), Josef Škvorecký (1924), Vlastimil Brodský (1920), Michael Czerny (1946), and Petr Chelčický (1390).

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Among LINGUISTS In Czechia

Among linguists born in Czechia, Jan Mukařovský ranks 3. Before him are Bedřich Hrozný (1879), and Vilém Mathesius (1882). After him are Julius Pokorny (1887), and Milena Hübschmannová (1933).

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