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Alexander Potebnja – Russian philosopher and linguist.
Illustrated Envelop with special cancellation |
| Description | Alexander Potebnja ((10 [22] September 1835,— 29 November [11 December] 1891),was a Russian Imperial philosopher and linguist, who was a professor of linguistics at the University of Kharkov. He is well known as a specialist in the evolution of Russian phonetics. He also translated part of Homer’s Odyssey into Ukrainian. He constructed a theory of language and consciousness that later influenced the thinking of his countryman the Psychologist Lev Vygotsky. His main work was “Language and Thought” (1862). He was a corresponding member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences, the foremost academic institution in the Russian Empire. |
| Type | Illustrated Envelop with special cancellation “150 years anniversary of the birth” |
| Condition: | Good |
| Edges/Corners | Fine |
| Used/Unused | Cancellation, Kiev, 22.09.1985
Registered, Cancellation, Kiev-1, 22.09.1985 |
| Published by/for: | Ministry of Communications, 1985 |
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