Juri Lotman, Russian-Estonian historian and scholar (born 1922)

Juri Lotman

Estonian-Russian semiotician, literary scholar

Juri Lotman 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…