Lev Shcherba
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Lev Shcherba (Russian: Лев Владимирович Щерба; 1880–1944) was a Russian linguist and lexicographer. He was a student of Jan Baudouin de Courtenay and the teacher of Sergei Ozhegov. As early as 1912, he elaborated the concept of the phoneme, defined by him as the grouping of sounds into "sound types". He was appointed Professor of the Petrograd University in 1916.

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