Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

1845,1846 - 1929

Country of citizenship: Poland, Russian Empire

Languages spoken, written or signed: Polish, Russian, French, German, Esperanto

Educated at: Charles University, Humboldt University of Berlin, University of Warsaw, Jagiellonian University, Szkoła Główna Warszawska, Leipzig University

Occupation: linguist, professor, esperantologist, philologist, slavist, phonetician

Award received: Order of Saint Anna, 2nd class, Order of Saint Anna, 3rd class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 2nd class, Order of St. Vladimir, 4th class, Order of Saint Stanislaus, 3rd class, Medal In memory of Alexander III

Student of: Izmail Sreznevsky

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Jan Niecisław Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay, also Ivan Alexandrovich Baudouin de Courtenay (Russian: Иван Александрович Бодуэн де Куртенэ; 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. Source: Wikipedia (en)