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Nikolai Trubetzkoy

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Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (Russian: Николай Сергеевич Трубецкой [nʲɪkɐˈlaj sʲɪrˈɡʲe(j)ɪvʲɪtɕ trʊbʲɪtsˈkoj]; 16 April 1890 – 25 June 1938) was a Russian linguist and historian whose teachings formed a nucleus of the Prague School of structural linguistics. He is widely considered to be the founder of morphophonology. He was also associated with the Russian Eurasianists.

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1. In this flourishing situation of his affairs, scarcely a day passed without being distinguished by new establishments, either in the navy, the army, or the legislature: he himself composed a military code for the infantry. Nov.

   Voltaire, The History of Peter the Great, Emperor of Russia

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2. To doff his own mask of moderation, he wanted, on the part of Novgorod, a breach of the peace. As he had simulated calm endurance, so he simulated now a sudden burst of passion. Having bribed an envoy of the republic to address him during a public audience with the name of sovereign, he claimed, at once, all the rights of a despot--the self-annihilation of the republic.

   Karl Marx, Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century

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3. There is much in the writings of Marx and Engels that cannot be fitted into the rigid orthodoxy which grew up among their disciples. Bernstein's main criticisms of these disciples, apart from such as we have already mentioned, consist in a defense of piecemeal action as against revolution.

   Bertrand Russell, Proposed Roads to Freedom

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Philosophers who discussed Nikolai Trubetzkoy

• Ferdinand de Saussure

Related ideas

• Fyodor Dostoevsky
• Historian
• Structural linguistics
• Moscow
• Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Russian Empire
• Nazi Germany
• Linguistics
• Phoneme
• Philology
• Phonology
• Russian Revolution
• Roman Jakobson
• Structuralism
• Nazism
• Leipzig University
• Literary criticism
• University of Vienna
• Vienna
• Eurasianism
• University of Minnesota Press

Place in the tradition

Part of Structuralism.

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