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Yuri Lotman
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Bust of Yuri Lotman by Lev Razumovsky, 1980
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| Born | 28 February 1922 |
| Died | 28 October 1993 (aged 71) |
| Education | Leningrad State University |
| Era | 20th-century philosophy |
| Region | Western philosophy |
| School | Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School |
| Institutions | University of Tartu |
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Semiotics |
Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман, Estonian: Juri Lotman; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent literary scholar, semiotician, and cultural historian, who worked at the University of Tartu. He was a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences. He was the founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. His archive (which is now kept at the University of Tallinn and at the Tartu University Library) which includes his correspondence with a number of Russian intellectuals, is immense.
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