LINGUIST

Algirdas Julien Greimas

1917 - 1992

Photo of Algirdas Julien Greimas

Icon of person Algirdas Julien Greimas

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. With his training in structural linguistics, he added to the theory of signification, plastic semiotics, and laid the foundations for the Parisian school of semiotics. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Algirdas Julien Greimas is the 24th most popular linguist (down from 18th in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from Russia (down from 232nd 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.

Memorability Metrics

Loading...

Page views of Algirdas Julien Greimas by language

Loading...

Among LINGUISTS

Among linguists, Algirdas Julien Greimas ranks 24 out of 214. Before him are Georges Dumézil, Kūkai, Franz Miklosich, Edward Sapir, Antoine Meillet, and Johann Martin Schleyer. After him are William Jones, Johann Christoph Adelung, Sibawayh, Michael Halliday, Otto Jespersen, and Pompeu Fabra.

Most Popular Linguists in Wikipedia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Contemporaries

Among people born in 1917, Algirdas Julien Greimas ranks 42. Before him are Joan Fontaine, Kiro Gligorov, Mel Ferrer, John B. Calhoun, Rochus Misch, and Ko Arima. After him are Yukio Tsuda, Tove Ditlevsen, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Jean-Pierre Melville, Fernando Rey, and Bourvil. Among people deceased in 1992, Algirdas Julien Greimas ranks 30. Before him are Satyajit Ray, Peter D. Mitchell, Anthony Perkins, Aribert Heim, Nureddin al-Atassi, and David Bohm. After him are Peyo, Günther Anders, John G. Kemeny, Kaysone Phomvihane, Samuel Reshevsky, and Takeshi Inoue.

Others Born in 1917

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

Others Deceased in 1992

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Algirdas Julien Greimas ranks 260 out of 3,761. Before him are Anastasia Romanovna (1530), Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna of Russia (1890), Aleksey Kuropatkin (1848), Maria Eleonora of Brandenburg (1599), Alexandre Kojève (1902), and Vasily Blyukher (1889). After him are Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Viktor Korchnoi (1931), Viktor Vasnetsov (1848), Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia (1891), Igor Kurchatov (1903), and Viktor Chernomyrdin (1938).

Others born in Russia

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous

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), Yevgeny Polivanov (1891), Igor M. Diakonoff (1914), Vladimir Toporov (1928), Alexander Veselovsky (1838), Waldemar Rosenberger (1848), Andrey Zaliznyak (1935), Vyacheslav Ivanov (1929), and Sergei Starostin (1953).

Russian born Linguists

Go to all Rankings
Load previousLoad previous