Yuri Lotman

Yuri Mikhailovich Lotman (Russian: Ю́рий Миха́йлович Ло́тман; born 28 February 1922 – died 28 October 1993) was a Russian literary scholar, semiotician, and cultural historian, who worked at the University of Tartu, Estonia. He was a member of the Estonian Academy of Sciences, and was the founder of the Tartu-Moscow Semiotic School.