# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/juri-lotman
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:23:09.674Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/juri-lotman"
name: "Juri Lotman"
slug: "juri-lotman"
description: "Yuri Mikhailovich 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 Academy of Sciences (1989) and the Estonian Academy of Sciences (1990). He was a founder of the Tartu–Moscow Semiotic School. The number of his printed works exceeds 800 titles. His extensive archive includes his correspondence with a number of Russian and Western intellectuals."
tagline: "Russian-Estonian semiotician (1922–1993)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Yuri_Lotman._Portrait._1980.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1922-02-28"
deathDate: "1993-10-28"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  momentum:             0
  historical:           23.06856
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump