Roman Jakobson (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)
Early Life
Born to Anna Volpert Jakobson and the chemist Osip Jakobson in 1896, Roman Osipovich Jakobson grew up in the intellectual circles of Moscow, where French and Russian were the normal languages of the intelligentsia and conversation often focused on poetry and art. By the time he entered high school at the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages in Moscow in 1906-1907, he was already engaged in writing and analyzing poetry. The curriculum at the institute included studies of Russian folk poetry and folklore, as well as literary theory, French poetry, and Russian...
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