Mikołaj Kruszewski
Linguist (1851-1887) · Academics · Died at 35
Mikołaj Habdank Kruszewski, was a Polish linguist active in the Russian Empire, most significant as the co-inventor of the concept of the phoneme. From 1883, he was a professor at Kazan University. His notable works include On Sound Alternation (1881) and Outline of Linguistic Science (1883).
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The former is the introduction to his master's thesis on morphophonemic alternation in Old Slavic and the latter is his doctoral thesis.
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Academics
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Deceased
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Lived 1851 to 1887 · aged 35
