Lotman, M. I︠U︡.

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Name (Latin)
Lotman, M. I︠U︡.
Name (Cyrilic)
Лотман, М. Ю.
Other forms of name
Lotman, Mihhail
Lotman, Mikhail
Lotman, M. IU. (Mikhail IUrevich)
Лотман, Михаил Юрьевич
Date of birth
1952-09-02
Place of birth
Saint Petersburg (Russia)
Associated country
Tartu (Estonia)
Field of activity
Semiotics
Associate group
Tartu Ülikool
Associated Language
rus
Gender
male
Fuller form of name
Mikhail I︠U︡rʹevich
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 9130609
Wikidata: Q2012757
Library of congress: n 97060833
Sources of Information
  • Kultuuri maailmad, 2004:p. 230 (Mihhail Lotman (D. Phil at Tartu University 2000) is senior researcher at Tartu University and professor of Semiotics)
  • Literary tradition and practice in Russian culture, 1993:t.p. (papers from an International Conference on the occasion of the Seventieth birthday of Yury Mikhailovich Lotman) p. vii, etc. (Mikhail Lotman is Senior Lecturer in Semiotics at Tartu Univ.; co-author with his father on more than one occasion)
  • Mandelʹshtam i Pasternak, c1996:t.p. (M.I︠U︡. Lotman) p. 1 of cover (Mikhail Lotman)
  • Struktura i tipologii︠a︡ russkogo stikha, 2000:p. 265 (b. 09/2/1952)
  • LCN: Lotman, M. IU. (Mikhail IUr'evich)
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Wikipedia description:

Mihhail Lotman (born September 2, 1952 in Leningrad, Soviet Union) is an Estonian literature researcher and politician, son of Juri Lotman and Zara Mints. Mihhail Lotman's research fields include general semiotics and semiotics of culture as well as text theory and history of Russian literature. Lotman was a member of the board of Russian Cultural Society in Estonia from 1988 to 1994. Lotman is a professor of semiotics and literary theory at Tallinn University and also a member of a research group on semiotics at the University of Tartu. Lotman was awarded the Medal of the Order of the White Star on February 2, 2001. In recent years, Lotman has been active in politics, serving as Member of the Riigikogu for the conservative Res Publica Party. In 2010, Lotman defended Sofi Oksanen's novel Puhdistus against its opponents in Estonia.

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