Vladimir Propp

Vladimir Propp
Vladimir Propp in 1928
Born	Hermann Waldemar Propp 29 April 1895 St. Petersburg, Russian Empire
Died	22 August 1970(1970-08-22) (aged 75) Leningrad, Russian SFSR, USSR
Occupation	Folklorist, scholar
Nationality	Russian, Soviet
Subject	Folklore of Russia, folklore

Vladimir Yakovlevich Propp (Russian: Владимир Яковлевич Пропп; 29 April [O.S. 17 April] 1895 – 22 August 1970) was a Soviet folklorist and scholar who analysed the basic structural elements of Russian folk tales to identify their simplest irreducible structural units.