Jan Mukařovský, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Mukařovský

Czech essayist, estheticist, literary theorist and university educator

Date of Birth: 11-Nov-1891

Place of Birth: Písek, South Bohemian Region, Czech Republic

Date of Death: 08-Feb-1975

Profession: writer, pedagogue, university teacher, literary critic, philosopher, linguist, literary scholar

Nationality: Czech Republic

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Jan Mukarovský (11 November 1891 – 8 February 1975) was a Czech literary, linguistic, and aesthetic theorist. He 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.
Among other achievements, he applied ideas from Geneva linguist and semiotician Ferdinand de Saussure to the analysis of literary and artistic expression, systematically applying and extending the concept of linguistic function to literary works and their reception in different periods.
Mukarovský had a profound influence on structuralist theory of literature, comparable to that of Roman Jakobson.