# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/alexander-potebnja
# Generated: 2026-08-14T09:06:16.072Z

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name: "Alexander Potebnja"
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description: "Alexander Afanasyevich Potebnja was a Russian Imperial and Ukrainian linguist, philosopher and pan-Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was a professor of linguistics at the Imperial Kharkov University. He is well known as a specialist in the evolution of Russian phonetics."
tagline: "Russian philosopher (1835-1891)"
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birthDate: "1835-09-10"
deathDate: "1891-11-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump