Lev Shcherba
Lev Shcherba | |
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Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба | |
1979 postal cover of the Soviet Union featuring portrait of Lev Shcherba. | |
| Born | March 3 [O.S. February 20] 1880 |
| Died | December 26, 1944 (aged 64) |
| Alma mater | Saint Petersburg Imperial University |
| Awards | Order of the Red Banner of Labour |
| Scientific career | |
| Institutions | Leningrad State University |
| Doctoral advisor | Jan Baudouin de Courtenay |
| Doctoral students | Sergey Ozhegov Lev Zinder Viktor Vinogradov |
Lev Vladimirovich Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба; Belarusian: Леў Уладзіміравіч Шчэрба; March 3 [O.S. February 20] 1880 – December 26, 1944) was a Russian and Soviet linguist and lexicographer specializing in phonetics and phonology.