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Vladimir Propp
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Russian folklorist, philologist and linguist
Key facts
- Born
- Hermann Waldemar Propp , ( 1895-04-29 ) 29 April 1895, St. Petersburg , Russia
- Died
- 22 August 1970 (1970-08-22) (aged 75), Leningrad , Soviet Union
- Occupation
- Folklorist scholar
- Subject
- Russian folklore
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Vladimir
- Family name
- Propp
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Soviet Union
- Place of birth
- Saint Petersburg
- Place of death
- Saint Petersburg
- Languages spoken
- German
- Notable work
- Morphology of the Folk Tale
- Field of work
- philology
- Image
- Vladimir Propp (1928 year) (cropped).jpg
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- date of death
- 1970-08-22
- date of birth
- 1895-04-16
- Commons category
- Vladimir Propp
- name in kana
- ウラジーミル・ヤコヴレヴィチ・プロップ
- interested in
- literary studies
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Encyclopedic overview
Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Russian and Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest, irreducible structural units.
Biography
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