Alexander Potebnja, Ukrainian linguist and philosopher (died 1891)

Alexander Potebnja

Russian-Ukrainian philosopher, linguist and panslavist activist

Alexander Afanasyevich Potebnja was a Russian Imperial linguist, philosopher and pan-Slavist of Ukrainian Cossack descent, who was a professor of linguistics at the Imperial Kharkov University. He is well known as a specialist in the evolution of Russian phonetics.