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- 28 February 1922
- Died
- 28 October 1993
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Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (Russian: Юрий Михайлович Лотман; 28 February 1922 – 28 October 1993) was a prominent Russian-Estonian literary scholar, semiotician, and historian of Russian culture, who worked at the University of Tartu. He was elected a member of the British Academy (1977), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989) and the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. His extensive archive (now kept at the University of Tallinn and at the Tartu University Library) includes his correspondence with a number of Russian and Western intellectuals.
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1922 births1993 deaths20th-century Estonian Jews20th-century Estonian philosophers20th-century Estonian writers20th-century linguists20th-century male writers20th-century philologistsAcademic staff of the University of TartuBurials at Raadi cemeteryCorresponding fellows of the British AcademyEstonian non-fiction writers