Alexander Potebnja
Russian-Ukrainian philosopher, linguist and panslavist activist / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alexander Potebnja (Ukrainian: Олекса́ндр Опана́сович Потебня́, Russian: Алекса́ндр Афана́сьевич Потебня́) (September 22, 1831 - December 11, 1891) was a linguist, philosopher and panslavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was a professor of linguistics at the Imperial University of Kharkiv.[1][2][3] He is well known as a specialist in the evolution of Russian phonetics.
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Alexander Potebnja | |
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Олександр Потебня | |
Born | (1835-09-22)22 September 1835 |
Died | 11 December 1891(1891-12-11) (aged 56) |
Spouse | Maria Potebnja |
He constructed a theory of language and consciousness that later influenced the thinking of his countryman the Psychologist Lev Vygotsky.[4][5] His main work was Language and Thought (Russian: Мысль и язык) (1862).[6] He also published a number of works on Russian Grammar, on the History of the Sounds in the Russian Language and on Slavic folk poetry, furthermore he translated a short fragment of Homer's Odyssey into Ukrainian.[7] Potebnja was a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the foremost academic institution in the Russian Empire.