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Algirdas Julien Greimas

1917 - 1992

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Algirdas Julien Greimas has received more than 177,567 page views. His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia. Algirdas Julien Greimas is the 18th most popular linguist (down from 15th in 2019), the 232nd most popular biography from Russia (up from 260th in 2019) and the 2nd most popular Russian Linguist.

Algirdas Julien Greimas was a French semiotician and philosopher. He was most famous for developing the concept of semiotics, which is the study of signs.

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Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Algirdas Julien Greimas ranks 18 out of 214. Before him are Franz Bopp, Pāṇini, August Schleicher, Rasmus Rask, Kūkai, and Edward Sapir. After him are Patanjali, Jost Gippert, Georges Dumézil, Johann Martin Schleyer, Johann Christoph Adelung, and Ignác Goldziher.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Algirdas Julien Greimas ranks 25. Before him are James Rainwater, Otto Günsche, Joan Fontaine, Jean-Pierre Melville, Zsa Zsa Gabor, and Robert Mitchum. After him are Óscar Romero, Bourvil, Robert Burns Woodward, Nur Muhammad Taraki, Rochus Misch, and Sven Hassel. Among people deceased in 1992, Algirdas Julien Greimas ranks 28. Before him are Daniel Bovet, Jan Oort, Peyo, Aribert Heim, David Bohm, and Félix Guattari. After him are Karl Carstens, James E. Webb, Günther Anders, Kaysone Phomvihane, John Spencer, 8th Earl Spencer, and Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovich of Russia.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Algirdas Julien Greimas ranks 232 out of 3,761. Before him are Aleksey Nikolayevich Tolstoy (1883), Oleg Antonov (1906), Bruno Taut (1880), Sabina Spielrein (1885), Ivan Kramskoi (1837), and Gennady Yanayev (1937). After him are Ilya Frank (1908), Daniel of Moscow (1261), Pyotr Kapitsa (1894), Gerhard Barkhorn (1919), Dmitry Kabalevsky (1904), and Ivan Krylov (1769).

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Among LINGUISTS In Russia

Among linguists born in Russia, Algirdas Julien Greimas ranks 2. Before him are Roman Jakobson (1896). After him are Nikolai Trubetzkoy (1890), Gabdulkhay Akhatov (1927), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Sergei Starostin (1953), and Andrey Zaliznyak (1935).

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