1. Filipp Fortunatov's father was the director of public schools in Olonets Governorate, and Fortunatov entered the Olonets provincial male gymnasium in Petrozavodsk, which was overseen by his father.
10 Facts About Filipp Fortunatov
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Filipp Fortunatov then entered the Faculty of History and Philology of Imperial Moscow University in 1864.
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In 1884, Filipp Fortunatov was made a part-time professor in the faculty at the Department of Comparative Linguistics and Sanskrit Language, and was promoted to a full-time professor two years later.
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In 1902, Filipp Fortunatov left Imperial Moscow University and moved to St Petersburg, working at the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences as a full-time academician.
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In 1904, Filipp Fortunatov headed a commission responsible for publishing recommendations regarding a Russian orthography reform, though the reform was shelved due to the Russo-Japanese War and 1905 Russian Revolution.
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In 1912, Filipp Fortunatov was made a member of the Board of the St Petersburg Academy of Sciences.
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On 3 October 1914, after returning to his dacha from a short walk, Filipp Fortunatov fell ill on his bed and died several hours later.
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Filipp Fortunatov was the founder of the Moscow linguistic circle, and the foremost representative of the Neogrammarian school in Russia.
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Filipp Fortunatov's studies specialized in the phonetics of the Indo-European languages, emphasizing the importance of using a strict historical approach in studying phonetic changes.
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Filipp Fortunatov's works included studies on the Slavic languages, Sanskrit, Vedic Sanskrit, Greek, Armenian, Gothic and Lithuanian.