Roman Jakobson
Roman Jakobson was born in 1896 in Moscow, Russia. He went to Prague school, and was the founder of the European movement in linguistics. He became a professor at different universities, like, Cophenhagen, Oslo, and Sweden. Later he moved to New York at taught at Columbia University. He taught slavic language, literature, and linguistics at Harvard University. He wrote different things about languages, such as, Studies on Child-Languages and Aphasia and Fundamentals of Language. He died on July 18, 1982 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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