Юрий Михайлович Лотман
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Born February 28, 1922
Died October 28, 1993 (71 years old)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic
Also known as: Юрий Лотман, Yu. M. Lotman
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Yuri Lotman (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман) 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. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. His archive (which is now kept at the University of Tallinn and at the Tartu University Library) which includes his correspondence with a number of Russian and Western intellectuals, is immense.