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Yuri Lotman (also Juri, Jüri, Jurij) (28 February 1922 - 1993) was an important semiotician, culturologist, and philologist in Russian literature.Yuri Lotman was one of the greatest semioticians & scholars. Born in Leningrad (USSR/ Russia, now - Petersburg) to the family of Mihhail and Aleksandra Lotman, he studied philology in the Leningrad State University. During World War II he served in artillery and after the war he came back to his studies in the university. In 1950 Lotman went to Estonia and from 1954 began his work at Tartu University. Here, in Tartu he set up his own school known as the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School. Among other members of this school there are names of Uspensky, Ivanov, Toporov, Gasparov, Pyatigorsky, Revzin, Lesskis, etc. This school is widely known for its "sign systems studies" published in Russian as "Trudy po znakovym systemam". Lotman studied theory of culture, Russian literature, history, semiology (general theory of signs & sign systems), semiotics of cinema, arts, literature, robotics, etc. In these fields, Lotman has been one of the most widely cited authors. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles.
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