ROMAN OSIPOVICH JAKOBSON Linguist; (b. Moscow, 10 October 1896 – d. Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA, 18 July 1982)

University professor: Masaryk University in Brno, Columbia University (from 1941); Harvard University (1949)

Membership of SASA: Department of Literature and Language; corresponding member from 14 June 1955.

Accession speech: Polish Academy of Sciences, foreign member

Awards and recognitions:  dr. h. c. of 28 universities: Prague, Brno, Oxford, Cambridge, etc.

Obituary: God. / SANU 90 (1984) 393–395 (M.Ivić)

Photograph: SANU F–549