Nikolai Trubetzkoy

Prince Nikolai Sergeyevich Trubetzkoy (originally Russian Николай Сергеевич Трубецкой, scientific transliteration Nikolaj Sergeevič Trubeckoj; * 4.jul / April 16 1890greg in Moscow, .. † June 25, 1938 in Vienna) was a Russian linguist and ethnologist and the founder of the phonology.

Biography

Trubetzkoy came from an old Russian noble family. His father, Prince Sergei Trubetskoy, was Professor of Philosophy in Moscow and also Rector of the University ibid. Early on, he began to deal with linguistics and ethnology. He published his first article in 1905, from 1908 to 1913 he studied at the Moscow University and received his doctorate in 1913 with a thesis "On the names of the future tense in the principal Indo-European languages ​​". In 1916 he qualified as a professor of comparative linguistics and Sanskrit. In 1917, he traveled to the Caucasus, where surprised him the October Revolution of 1918 he was briefly a professor in Rostov-on- Don, 1920, he emigrated, forced by the political development, to Bulgaria, where he was professor of Slavic philology at the University of Sofia. In 1922 he was appointed professor at the University of Vienna, 1938, he died of a heart attack, had a short time after the Gestapo interrogated him for a critical article about the Nazis and confiscated his archive.

Trubetzkoy advanced linguistics to the branch of phonology. With Trubetzkoy teaching a new era of linguistics in Vienna and from Vienna dawned: Early language was interpreted primarily as a written language, which he developed a new type of speech considerations relate for the first time on a feature- logical investigation of language ( sounds, phonemes ).

Since the end of the Soviet Union increasingly Trubetzkoy rediscovered scientific work. Early to mid 20's Trubetzkoy profiled as co-founder of Eurasianism, a spiritual flow of the Russian exile, which was based in part to the works of Vladimir Solovyov. The movement fell apart after a few years by internal dissension and infiltration by the Soviet secret service, but has seen since the early 1990s by Alexander Dugin Neoeurasisten a revival.