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), the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989) and the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yuri Lotman is the 628th most popular philosopher (down from 511th in 2019), the 602nd most popular biography from Russia (down from 477th in 2019) and the 13th 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 628 out of 1,267. Before him are R. G. Collingwood, Roman Ingarden, Maximus Planudes, Guarino da Verona, Eugen Fink, and Diogenes of Babylon. After him are Margaret Cavendish, Duchess of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Yan Hui, Étienne Balibar, Syrianus, Andreas Karlstadt, and Maurice Blondel.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1922, Yuri Lotman ranks 109. Before him are Yvonne De Carlo, Anker Jørgensen, José Froilán González, Patrick Macnee, Serge Reggiani, and Stephen Kim Sou-hwan. After him are Eleanor Parker, Abdul Razak Hussein, Salvatore Giuliano, Charles Mingus, Fikret Amirov, and Pierre Hadot. Among people deceased in 1993, Yuri Lotman ranks 62. Before him are Leonid Gaidai, Léo Ferré, Roy Raymond, Eddie Constantine, Yen Chia-kan, and Eleanor Hibbert. After him are Tofiq Bahramov, Silvina Ocampo, Raymond Burr, Sebastiano Baggio, Meliton Kantaria, and Hervé Villechaize.

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In Russia

Among people born in Russia, Yuri Lotman ranks 602 out of 3,761. Before him are Maria Miloslavskaya (1624), Werner Ostendorff (1903), Sergei Novikov (1938), Nicolas de Staël (1914), Marie of Prussia, Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth (1579), and Yuri II of Vladimir (1188). After him are Patriarch Tikhon of Moscow (1865), Mikhail Nesterov (1862), Igor Netto (1930), Pavel Tsitsianov (1754), Alexander Godunov (1949), and George Sanders (1906).

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Among PHILOSOPHERS In Russia

Among philosophers born in Russia, Yuri Lotman ranks 13. Before him are Johann Georg Hamann (1730), Alexandre Koyré (1892), Ivan Ilyin (1883), Johann Christoph Gottsched (1700), Sergei Bulgakov (1871), and P. D. Ouspensky (1878). After him are Pyotr Lavrov (1823), Aleksey Khomyakov (1804), Nikolai Fyodorovich Fyodorov (1829), Nikolai Amosov (1913), Volin (1882), and Konstantin Leontiev (1831).

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