Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

In this article, the surname is Baudouin de Courtenay, not Courtenay.
Jan Baudouin de Courtenay
Born
Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay

13 March 1845
Radzymin, Warsaw Governorate, Congress Poland, Russian Empire
Died3 November 1929(1929-11-03) (aged 84)
Warsaw, Second Polish Republic
Philosophical work
Main interestsPhonology
Notable ideasTheory of the phoneme and phonetic alternations
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Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay, also known as Ivan Alexandrovich Baudouin de Courtenay (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). In 1919–1929 he was a professor at the re-established University of Warsaw in an again independent Poland.


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