Yuri Lotman (also Juri, Jüri, Jurij) (28 February1922 - 1993) was an important semiotician, culturologist, and philologist in Russian literature. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. February 28 is the 59th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1922 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1993 is a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar and marked the Beginning of the International Decade to Combat Racism and Racial Discrimination (1993-2003) Events Media:January January 1 - Czechoslovakia divides. ... Semiotics (also spelled Semeiotics) is the study of signs and sign systems. ... Cultural studies combines sociology, literary theory, film/video studies, and cultural anthropology to study cultural phenomena in industrial societies. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia or its émigrés, and to the Russian-language literature of several independent nations once a part of what was historically Russia or the Soviet Union. ...
Born in Leningrad (USSR/ Russia, now - Petersburg) to the Jewish family of Mikhail and Aleksandra Lotman, he studied philology in the Leningrad State University. During World War II he served in the artillery and after the war he came back to his studies in the university. Saint Petersburg (Russian: Санкт-Петербу́рг, English transliteration: Sankt-Peterburg), colloquially known as Питер (transliterated Piter), formerly known as Leningrad (Ленингра́д, 1924–1991) and Petrograd (Петрогра́д, 1914–1924), is a city located in Northwestern Russia on the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea. ... The word Jew ( Hebrew: יהודי) is used in a wide number of ways, but generally refers to a follower of the Jewish faith, a child of a Jewish mother, or someone of Jewish descent with a connection to Jewish culture or ethnicity and often a combination of these attributes. ... Philology is the study of ancient texts and languages. ... Categories: Russia-related stubs | Universities and colleges in Russia | Saint Petersburg ... Mushroom cloud from the nuclear explosion over Nagasaki rising 18 km into the air. ...
In 1950 Lotman went to Estonia and from 1954 began his work at Tartu University. 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 journal Sign Systems Studies published formerly in Russian as Trudy po znakovym systemam. Lotman studied the theory of culture, Russian literature, history, semiology (general theory of signs and sign systems), semiotics of cinema, arts, literature, robotics, etc. In these fields, Lotman has been one of the most widely cited authors. 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The University of Tartu (Estonian: Tartu Ülikool, German: Universität Dorpat) is the national university of Estonia, and the one classical university in Estonia, located in the city of Tartu. ... Image of Tartu street Tartu (German, Polish Dorpat, Russian Юpьeв Yuryev) is the second largest city of Estonia, with its population of 101,246 (the Population Census data is from 2000) in an area of 38. ... Sign Systems Studies is internationally the oldest semiotics periodical. ... Semiotics (also spelled Semeiotics) is the study of signs and sign systems. ...
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Short sketch by the Estonian Foreign Ministry (http://www.vm.ee/estonia/kat_173/3908.html)
Link page to works by and on Lotman (http://www.ut.ee/SOSE/onlotman.htm)
Homepage of the Lotman Institute for Russian and Soviet Culture (http://www.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/lirsk/) at the University of Bochum
Lotman studied the theory of culture, Russian literature, history, semiotics and semiology (general theories of signs and sign systems), semiotics of cinema, arts, literature, robotics, etc. In these fields, Lotman has been one of the most widely cited authors.
Mihhail Lotman, Yuri Lotman's son is a well-known publicist, academic, and an independent right-wing politician (member of Riigikogu for Res Publica).
Unfortunately, Lotman's last ideas about the role that the factors of the casual and the unforeseeable play in culture, as well as those concerning the functional asymmetry of the brain, the explosion in the dynamic of culture, and the semiotics of everyday behaviour, have been left unfinished.
His lecture, entitled "Semiotic interpretation of the composition of the Polyptych of the Mystic Lamb of Gante, by Van Eyck (human and divine perspective)", dealt with the spatial organization of the polyptych which is characterized, according to Uspenskij, by the opposition between the sacred and earthly spaces, whether the shrine is open or closed.
Mijail Lotman's lecture, the title of which was "Structure and Liberty (Notes on the philosophical bases of the Semiotic School of Tartu)", analyzes, from a semiotic-culturologic perspective, the relations between the notions of 'structure' and 'liberty'.
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