Yeleazar Meletinsky

Eleazar Moiseevich Meletinskii (also Meletinsky or Meletinskij; Russian: Елеаза́р Моисе́евич Мелети́нский; 22 October 1918, Kharkiv – 17 December 2005, Moscow) was a Russian scholar famous for his seminal studies of folklore, literature, philology and the history and theory of narrative; he was one of the major figures of Russian academia in those fields.^[1]

He was Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at Russian State University for the Humanities for several years until his death.^[1]

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