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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 55,910 page views. His biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia. Jan Mukařovský is the 75th most popular linguist (up from 728th in 2019), the 312th most popular biography from Czechia (down from 247th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Czech Linguist.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Jan Mukařovský ranks 75 out of 161Before him are Émile Littré, Gustaf John Ramstedt, Vasili Eroshenko, Max Nettlau, John Chadwick, and Ramón Menéndez Pidal. After him are Wilhelm Meyer-Lübke, Louis de Beaufront, Carl Brockelmann, Joshua Fishman, Johannes Aavik, and Holger Pedersen.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1891, Jan Mukařovský ranks 104Before him are Otto Ciliax, Ivan Vinogradov, Prince Constantine Constantinovich of Russia, Antoine Pinay, R. Norris Williams, and Abraham Fraenkel. After him are Milton L. Humason, Princess Adelaide of Saxe-Meiningen, Pavlo Tychyna, Carl Jacob Burckhardt, Pedro Salinas, and Diana Budisavljević. Among people deceased in 1975, Jan Mukařovský ranks 90Before him are Faisal bin Musaid Al Saud, Georg Ots, Achille Van Acker, Gustavo Rojas Pinilla, Alvin Hansen, and Boris Blacher. After him are Mina Witkojc, Kazimierz Fajans, William Hartnell, Sven Rydell, G. M. B. Dobson, and Tim Buckley.

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In Czechia

Among people born in Czechia, Jan Mukařovský ranks 312 out of 973Before him are Karel Kosík (1926), Oskar Nedbal (1874), Miloslav Vlk (1932), Adolf Scherer (1938), Antonín Mrkos (1918), and Judith of Bohemia (1056). After him are Alois Lexa von Aehrenthal (1854), Ivan Mládek (1942), František Brixi (1732), Ferdinand Ritter von Hebra (1816), Vítězslav Nezval (1900), and Jiří Kylián (1947).

Among LINGUISTS In Czechia

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