# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/algirdas-greimas
# Generated: 2026-08-13T18:30:43.702Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/algirdas-greimas"
name: "Algirdas Greimas"
slug: "algirdas-greimas"
description: "Algirdas Julien Greimas was a Lithuanian literary scientist who wrote most of his body of work in French while living in France. Greimas is known among other things for the Greimas square. He is, along with Roland Barthes, considered the most prominent of the French semioticians. With his training in structural linguistics, he added to the theory of signification, plastic semiotics, and laid the foundations for the Paris school of semiotics. Among Greimas's major contributions to semiotics are the concepts of isotopy, the actantial model, the narrative program, and the semiotics of the natural world. He also researched Lithuanian mythology and Proto-Indo-European religion, and was influential in semiotic literary criticism."
tagline: "Lithuanian-French linguist (1917-1992)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Algirdas_Julien_Greimas_2017_stamp_of_Lithuania.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "FR"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
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  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1917-03-09"
deathDate: "1992-02-27"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           52.15
  momentum:             0.04028197381671703
  historical:           21.307676
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump