Roman Jakobson
Deceased Q156201

Roman Jakobson

Russian linguist (1896–1982)

Born: September 28, 1896 (1896) · Moscow
Died: July 18, 1982 (1982) · Cambridge
Age at death: 85 years
Nationality United States, Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union, Russian Empire, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Occupation writer, university teacher, teacher, scientist, pedagogue, linguist, philologist, literary scholar, historian, critic
Field of work linguistics, structuralism, poetics, morphology, Russian literature, philology, literary studies
Education Faculty of History and Philology of Moscow University, philosophy faculty of the German university of Prague
Employer Harvard University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Masaryk University
Position held president of the Linguistic Society of America
Gender male

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