Baudouin de Courtenay I.A., (1845-1929), linguist

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BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY (Baudouin de Courtenay) Ivan Alexandrovich (Jan Nechislav) (1845-1929), linguist-theorist, Slavonic scholar, worker of the Higher School of Russia and Poland, Corresponding Member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1897). Graduated from the Department of History and Philology of the Main School of Warsaw (the former Warsaw University) in 1866. Lived in St. Petersburg from 1868. Until 1870, was a contracted lecturer at Petersburg University. Later, he lectured at Kazan University, Derpt University, and Krakow University. From 1898, he held a professorship at Petersburg University, and founded the Petersburg linguistic school. His fundamental works dwell on general linguistics and comparative historical philology. In 1918, Baudouin de Courtenay left for Poland to become a professor at the Warsaw University. In the 1910s, he lived at 9 Kadetskaya Line.

References: И. А. Бодуэн де Куртенэ. М., 1960; Польские профессора и студенты в университетах России (XIX - нач. ХХ в.): Конф. Варшава, 1995. С. 100-110, 139-149.

M. F. Khartanovich. Baudouin de Courtenay Ivan Alexandrovich (born Jan Nechislav)
Siezdovskaya Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 9
И. А. Бодуэн де Куртенэ. М., 1960
Польские профессора и студенты в университетах России (XIX – нач. ХХ в.): Конф. Варшава, 1995 State University, St. Petersburg