Author: Lev Vladimirovich Shcherba
Born: 1880
Died: 1944
Bio: Lev Shcherba (commonly Scherba) (Russian: Лев Влади́мирович Ще́рба) (March 3 [O.S. February 20] 1880 – December 26, 1944) was a Russian Empire and Soviet linguist and lexicographer specialising in phonetics and phonology.