The Estonian scholar Jakob Linzbach is primarily known for having published, in 1916, a Russian-language book with the title The Principles of Philosophical Language: An Attempt at Exact Linguistics . In this book, and in his other published and unpublished works, he aimed at creating a universal written language in which mathematics and images would mix. Linzbach’s ideas have raised awareness among people from different (scholarly) fields – semiotics, interlinguistics, philosophy, cinema theory, informatics, etc. However, not much has been published about Linzbach’s life. In one of his manuscripts kept in Tartu, there is a chapter that can be considered an autobiography and that provided, in the pencil of Linzbach himself, information about his life and work. This text is edited, translated into English and commented here for the first time.

中文翻译：

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雅各布·林茨巴赫（Jakob Linzbach）谈他的生活和工作

爱沙尼亚学者雅各布·林茨巴赫（Jakob Linzbach）主要以1916年出版的俄文书籍而著称，该书的标题为《哲学语言的原理：尝试精确语言学》。在这本书以及他的其他已出版和未出版的作品中，他旨在创建一种通用的书面语言，将数学和图像混合在一起。林茨巴赫的思想在符号学，语言学，哲学，电影理论，信息学等不同（学者）领域的人们中引起了人们的关注。然而，关于林茨巴赫生活的报道却很少。在他保存在塔尔图（Tartu）的手稿中，有一章可以看作是自传，并用林茨巴赫本人的铅笔提供了有关他的生活和工作的信息。此文本已被编辑，翻译成英文并在此进行了首次评论。