Jan Baudouin de Courtenay, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Jan Baudouin de Courtenay

Polish linguist and slavist

Date of Birth: 13-Mar-1845

Place of Birth: Radzymin, Masovian Voivodeship, Poland

Date of Death: 03-Nov-1929

Profession: professor, philologist, linguist, esperantologist

Nationality: Poland

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Jan Niecislaw Ignacy Baudouin de Courtenay (13 March 1845 – 3 November 1929) (Russian: ???? ????????????? ?????? ?? ??????? (Ivan Aleksandrovich Boduen de Kurtene)) was a Russian and 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 (as Tartu, Estonia was then known) (1883–1893), Kraków (1893–1899) in Austria-Hungary, and St.
Petersburg (1900–1918), and in Russia he is recognized as a Russian scientist.
In 1919-1929 he was a professor at the re-established University of Warsaw in a once again independent Poland.