LINGUIST

Nikolai Trubetzkoy

1890 - 1938

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Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (Russian: Николай Сергеевич Трубецкой, IPA: [trʊbʲɪtsˈkoj]; 16 April 1890 – 25 June 1938) was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. He is widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Nikolai Trubetzkoy has received more than 183,899 page views. His biography is available in 38 different languages on Wikipedia. Nikolai Trubetzkoy is the 27th most popular linguist (down from 22nd in 2019), the 346th most popular biography from Russia (down from 336th in 2019) and the 3rd most popular Russian Linguist.

Nikolai Trubetzkoy is most famous for his theory of the "phoneme."

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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 38

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 7.63

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.76

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 27 out of 214. Before him are Georges Dumézil, Johann Martin Schleyer, Johann Christoph Adelung, Ignác Goldziher, William Jones, and Lucien Tesnière. After him are Sibawayh, Pompeu Fabra, Franz Miklosich, Nicholas Marr, Michel Bréal, and Georg Friedrich Grotefend.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1890, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 42. Before him are Jaroslav Heyrovský, Elsa Schiaparelli, Anthony Fokker, Groucho Marx, Beniamino Gigli, and Ronald Fisher. After him are Jacques Ibert, Vannevar Bush, Habibullāh Kalakāni, Viktor Lutze, Moša Pijade, and Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia. Among people deceased in 1938, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 38. Before him are Suzanne Lenglen, Otto Bauer, Hans Christian Gram, Feodor Chaliapin, Ernst vom Rath, and Franz I, Prince of Liechtenstein. After him are Corneliu Zelea Codreanu, Andrej Hlinka, Ernst Barlach, Alfonso, Prince of Asturias, William Stern, and Prince Nicholas of Greece and Denmark.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 346 out of 3,761. Before him are Tamara Karsavina (1885), Andriyan Nikolayev (1929), Genndy Tartakovsky (1970), Anatoly Sobchak (1937), Anna Dostoevskaya (1846), and The French Angel (1903). After him are Alfred Schnittke (1934), Otto Nicolai (1810), Grigory Orlov (1734), Valentin Serov (1865), Grand Duchess Xenia Alexandrovna of Russia (1875), and Alexander Andreyevich Ivanov (1806).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Nikolai Trubetzkoy ranks 3. Before him are Roman Jakobson (1896), and Algirdas Julien Greimas (1917). After him are Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Sergei Starostin (1953), and Andrey Zaliznyak (1935).

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