BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY, Jan

BAUDOUIN DE COURTENAY, Jan Ignacy Niecisław (Jean, in Russian Ivan Aleksandrovič Boduèn-de-Kurtenè). Radzymin near Warsaw 13.3.1845 — Warsaw 3.11.1929. Famous Polish Linguist. Son of Alexander Baudouin de Courtenay and Jadwiga Dobrzyńska, the family came from France in 1733. Gymnasium in Warsaw (under Leskien). Studies at Jena under Schleicher, then at…

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ALTUCHOW, Nicolás (Mikołaj Ałtuchow)

ALTUCHOW, Nicolás (Mikołaj Ałtuchow). Kiev (Kyiv) 12.9.1912 — Montevideo 3.5.1983. Polish Indo­logist in South America. Born in Ukraine, son of engineer Wladimir Altuchow and Anna Hornung, family moved to Poland in 1917. Student of Stasiak at Lwów (Lviv), in 1936-39 his Assistant. Then emigrated to England. From 1951 he was…

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