Algirdas Greimas
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Lithuanian-French linguist (1917-1992)
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Algirdas Julien Greimas was born on 9 March 1917 in Tula and died on 27 February 1992 in the 10th arrondissement of Paris; he is buried at Petrašiūnai Cemetery. Of Lithuanian ethnicity and a citizen of France, he worked as a linguist, philosopher and university teacher specialising in semiotics. He was educated at Marijampolė Gymnasium and Vytautas Magnus University, and his doctoral advisor was Charles Bruneau; he was influenced by Georges Dumézil. Greimas taught at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences, Sorbonne Nouvelle-Paris 3, the University of Poitiers and Ankara University, and belonged to the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. His doctoral students included Per Aage Brandt and Thomas Pavel. He spoke French and Lithuanian.
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1917
- Died
- 1992
- Works
- 80
Top works
- Dictionnaire du moyen français
- Moyen français
- Lietuva pabaltijy
- Introduction à l'analyse du discours en sciences sociales
- Hommage à A.J. Greimas
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Key facts
- Born
- Algirdas Julius Greimas , ( 1917-03-09 ) 9 March 1917, Tula , Russian Empire
- Died
- 27 February 1992 (1992-02-27) (aged 74), Paris, France
- Citizenship
- Lithuania, France
- Education
- Vytautas Magnus University , Kaunas; University of Grenoble ; Sorbonne , Paris (PhD, 1949)
- Known for
- Greimas square , actantial model , isotopy
- Spouse
- Teresa Mary Keane
- Fields
- Semiotics , structural linguistics
- Institutions
- École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
- Doctoral students
- Jacques Fontanille
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Algirdas
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- France
- Place of birth
- Tula
- Place of death
- Paris
- Educated at
- Marijampolė Gymnasium
- Languages spoken
- French
- Doctoral advisor
- Charles Bruneau
- Field of work
- semiotics
- Image
- Algirdas Julien Greimas 2017 stamp of Lithuania.jpg
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- ethnic group
- Lithuanians
- date of birth
- 1917-03-09
- date of death
- 1992-02-27
- member of
- Lithuanian Academy of Sciences
- name in native language
- Algirdas Julien Greimas
- place of burial
- Petrašiūnai Cemetery
- Commons category
- Algirdas Julien Greimas
- influenced by
- Georges Dumézil
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Encyclopedic overview
Algirdas Julien Greimas ( French: [alɡiʁdas ʒyljɛ̃ gʁɛmas]; born Algirdas Julius Greimas; 9 March 1917 – 27 February 1992) was a Lithuanian literary scientist who wrote most of his body of work in French while living in France. Greimas is known among other things for the Greimas square (le carré sémiotique). He is, along with Roland Barthes, considered the most prominent of the French semioticians. With his training in structural linguistics, he added to the theory of signification, plastic semiotics, and laid the foundations for the Paris school of semiotics. Among Greimas's major contributions to semiotics are the concepts of isotopy, the actantial model, the narrative program, and the semiotics of the natural world. He also researched Lithuanian mythology and Proto-Indo-European religion, and was influential in semiotic literary criticism.
Biography
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