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PHILOSOPHER

Yuri Lotman

1922 - 1993

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Juri Lotman (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман; 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), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989) and Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Yuri Lotman has received more than 115,373 page views. His biography is available in 39 different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Lotman is the 442nd most popular philosopher (down from 379th in 2019), the 421st most popular biography from Russia (down from 310th in 2019) and the 9th most popular Russian Philosopher.

Yuri Lotman was a semiotician who is most famous for his work on the structural analysis of culture.

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Among PHILOSOPHERS

Among philosophers, Yuri Lotman ranks 442 out of 1,081Before him are Arnobius, Michel Serres, P. D. Ouspensky, Kapila, Franz Rosenzweig, and Lucilio Vanini. After him are Brunetto Latini, Ravidas, Yi Hwang, Alan Watts, Madhvacharya, and Alain de Benoist.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Yuri Lotman ranks 65Before him are Lucian Freud, Toots Thielemans, Oskar Werner, Joan Fuster, Adolfo Celi, and George Blake. After him are Barbara Bel Geddes, Carl Reiner, Jake LaMotta, Denholm Elliott, María Casares, and Luis Echeverría. Among people deceased in 1993, Yuri Lotman ranks 38Before him are Arthur Ashe, Alexandra of Yugoslavia, Léon Theremin, Jean Negulesco, Félix Houphouët-Boigny, and Masahiko Kimura. After him are Boris Christoff, Hans Baur, Pat Nixon, Severo Ochoa, Dinmukhamed Kunaev, and Jimmy Doolittle.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Lotman ranks 421 out of 3,262Before him are Vasily Zhukovsky (1783), Nathalie Sarraute (1900), George Ostrogorsky (1902), Vsevolod the Big Nest (1154), Rinat Dasayev (1957), and Grand Duchess Elena Vladimirovna of Russia (1882). After him are Yuri Nikulin (1921), Aleksei N. Leontiev (1903), Prince Albert of Prussia (1809), Elsa Triolet (1896), Sophia Tolstaya (1844), and Lauri Törni (1919).

Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Yuri Lotman ranks 9Before him are Mikhail Bakhtin (1895), Georgi Plekhanov (1856), Vladimir Solovyov (1853), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Alexandre Kojève (1902), and Johann Georg Hamann (1730). After him are Sergei Bulgakov (1871), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Pyotr Lavrov (1823), and Volin (1882).