# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/peeter-torop
# Generated: 2026-08-13T13:08:47.819Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/peeter-torop"
name: "Peeter Torop"
slug: "peeter-torop"
description: "Peeter Torop is an Estonian semiotician. Following Roman Jakobson, he expanded the scope of the semiotic study of translation to include intratextual, intertextual, and extratextual translation and stressing the productivity of the notion of translation in general semiotics. He is a co-editor of the journal Sign Systems Studies, the oldest international semiotic periodical, the chairman of the Estonian Semiotics Association and professor of semiotics of culture at Tartu University."
tagline: "Estonian semiotician and literary scholar (born 1950)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Peeter_Torop.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1950-11-28"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           37.45
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.003816
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     45
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "بيتر توروب"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Пеетер Тороп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeter_Torop"
    title: "Peeter Torop"
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  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeter_Torop"
    title: "Peeter Torop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peeter_Torop"
    title: "Peeter Torop"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF%2C_%D0%9F%D0%B5%D1%8D%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80"
    title: "Тороп, Пеэтер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://uk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9F%D0%B5%D0%B5%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80_%D0%A2%D0%BE%D1%80%D0%BE%D0%BF"
    title: "Пеетер Тороп"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump