Yuri Lotman
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1922 – 1993
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Who was Yuri Lotman?
Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman was a prominent literary scholar, semiotician, and cultural historian, who worked at the University of Tartu. Member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He was the founder of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School and is considered to be the first Soviet structuralist because of his early essay On the Delimitation of Linguistic and Philological Concepts of Structure and works on structural poetics. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles; and his archive which includes his correspondence with a number of Russian intellectuals, is immense.
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- Born
- Feb 28, 1922
Saint Petersburg - Also known as
- I͡U. M. Lotman
- Ethnicity
- Jewish people
- Education
- Saint Petersburg State University
- Lived in
- Saint Petersburg
- Died
- Oct 28, 1993
Tartu
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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