Vladimir Propp
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Born January 1, 1895
Died January 1, 1970 (75 years old)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Also known as: V. I︠A︡ Propp, V. Ya Propp
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Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analyzed the basic plot components of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible narrative elements. Source: Wikipedia
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Morphology of the folk tale
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Vladimir Propp was born in Petersburg, April 29, 1895. In 1932 he was called to a position at the University of Leningrad and went on to make major contributions to Russian folklore studies, comparative mythology, and the classification of folklore genres. His international fame is closely tied to the contributions he made to the structural analysis of folklore in Morphology of the Folktale. -- from back cover.