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Roman Jakobson

Russian-american linguist, philosopher and semiotician.

Born October 10th, 1896 in Moscow. [ref]

Died July 18th, 1982 at 85 years old in Boston. [ref]

Occupations
critic, historian, linguist, literary scholar, pedagogue, teacher, writer
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Die happily and look forward to taking up a new and better form. Like the sun, only when you set in the west can you rise in the east. Rumi