After teaching high school in Kiev from 1919 to 1921, he went on to study and teach in Germany and Prague, where he was a member of the prestigious circle of philologists that included Roman Jakobson.
He went on to study and teach in Germany and Prague. He was teaching high school in Kiev from 1919 to 1921. He was a member of the prestigious circle of philologists. These philologists included Roman Jakobson.