Juri Lotman

Juri Lotman
Bust of Juri Lotman by Lev Razumovsky, 1980
Born	(1922-02-28)28 February 1922 Petrograd, Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic
Died	28 October 1993(1993-10-28) (aged 71) Tartu, Estonia
Education	Leningrad State University
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School
Institutions	University of Tartu
Main interests	Semiotics

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), Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters (1987), Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (1989) and Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. His archive (which is now kept at the University of Tallinn and at the Tartu University Library) which includes his correspondence with a number of Russian and Western intellectuals, is immense.